The Haitian Project Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222700013
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Providence, RI, USA
Phone
4013513624
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,009,278
Expenses
$2,496,924
Assets
$10,574,049
Liabilities
$10,411

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

13 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PATRICK MOYNIHAN (PRESIDENT)
  • MARISA GRONDIN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MARK BOWKER (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • PATRICK MOYNIHAN (PRESIDENT): $164,177 total reported compensation
  • MARISA GRONDIN (VICE PRESIDENT): $153,711 total reported compensation
  • MARK BOWKER (VICE PRESIDENT): $153,711 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The haitian project through its support of louverture cleary schools, a national network of tuition-free, catholic, coeducational secondary boarding schools in haiti, provides for the education of academically talented and motivated students from haitian families who cannot afford the cost of their children's education in order to maximize their potential and enable them to work toward building a haiti where justice and peace thrive.

What it reported doing in 2025

The haitian project, inc. Supports and oversees the louverture cleary schools(lcs) network in haiti, which will be a national network of tuition-free, catholic, co-educational secondary boarding schools in haiti. The flagship lcs has been operating for nearly four decades in port au prince, and the second school is under construction in the plauteau central, which will be the prototype for the physical campus for the additional schools. Each fully operational school serves 360 students ages 11 to 19 who otherwise could not afford secondary education. The school's university scholarship program currently supports 110 to 120 alumni at any given time with scholarships to haitian universities, and this number will increase as additional schools graduate students. The schools are fully accredited by the haitian ministry of education, following a rigorous curriculum, and are managed by a fully haitian leadership team. The haitian project has a formal relationship with a haitian non-profit organization established for the purpose of managing the activity in haiti. In 2025, the haitian project provided $1,469,563 directly to the foundations by wire transfer based on a budget approved by the haitian project's board of directors to support the activities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 83% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 78
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.6%; rating input score 67
  • Program expense ratio: 71.1%; rating input score 71
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.47 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Fail
    • May suspend future funding: Fail
    • Requires financial reports: Pass
    • Conducts site visits: Fail
    • Requires grant agreements: Fail
    • May require repayment: Fail
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.23; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.6% of revenue deployed · 71.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $164K · 13 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.