What to Expect Project

Analysis

What to Expect Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, VA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1998, 28 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, What to Expect Project reported income of $378k and spending of $403k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $263k to $378k (+44%), an average of +7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2019, when income rose by 94%. Over the whole period it spent 122% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, What to Expect Project sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 51% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 66th percentile, and in the 65th percentile within VA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Family Center Inc ($378k), Veteran Resilience Project Inc ($378k) and Living Hope Wheelchair Association ($378k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 85% and program service revenue 15% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $175k (43% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $118k. At year end it held assets of $172k against liabilities of $48k, net assets of $123k. It reported 2 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.