The Learning Project C/o Jacob Comforty

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
463923540
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Bloomington, IN, USA
Phone
8476445840
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$144,506
Expenses
$119,273
Assets
$31,963

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JACOB COMFORTY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JACOB COMFORTY (PRESIDENT)
  • LISA COMFORTY (MEMBER)
  • AARON COMFORTY (MEMBER)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The mission of the learning project is to inspire informed, critical thinking and civil discussion about some of the most difficult issues we face today-racism, anti-semitism, prejude, persecution of minorities, and growing divisions in society today-and about the means of addressing and redressing these intensifying threats.

What it reported doing in 2025

We provide, in a variety of mediums, programming, research, and documentation related to instances of genocide, focusing in large part on the holocaust and stories of both rescue and survival in bulugaria and surrounding countries. Our interest and commitment flow from director jacky comforty's bulgarian jewish hertiage. From these formative circumstances, we broaden our focus to study and bring to public awareness instances of, reasons for, and characteristics of prejudices about, persecution of, and rescue or support for other minorities or disadvantaged person. Our goal is to promote understanding of, and healing responses to, today's increasingly fraught divisions and the resurgence of anti-semitism, holocaust denial or revisionism, racism and racist ideologies, and all efforts to dehumanize "the other". To this end, we also address the need to include people with disabilities in schools, universities, and life, generally, and to begin thoughtful, caring, humanistic education in early childhood. Our intended audiences include a diverse array of schools and universities, all media sectors, and government at all levels and in communities thoughtout the united states and around the world.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 99

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 17.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 28.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 27.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $119K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.