Project Compassion

Analysis

Project Compassion is a registered charity in United States, based in Belleville, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2026. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 2021, Project Compassion reported income of $792k and spending of $816k, spending 103% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2021, income grew from $689k to $792k (+15%), an average of +7.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Project Compassion sits at the 72nd percentile: it is larger than about 72% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 76th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Movementforward ($792k), Beacon Village ($792k) and House of the Good Shepherd ($792k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2021, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $47k (5.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1,616. At year end it held assets of $234k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $234k. It reported 2 employees.