Ripple Effect Project

Analysis

Ripple Effect Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Waterville, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. 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, Ripple Effect Project reported income of $98k and spending of $110k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from December 2022 to December 2023, income fell from $117k to $98k (-16%), an average of -16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 114% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Ripple Effect Project sits at the 33rd percentile: it is larger than about 33% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 36th percentile, and in the 29th percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Youth Changing Society ($98k), Love a Neighbor ($98k) and Climate Parliament Inc ($98k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $17k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $17k.