Dignitas Project

Analysis

Dignitas Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Santa Ana, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover community improvement and capacity building, which this site groups under community and economic development. 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, Dignitas Project reported income of $197k and spending of $25k, leaving 87% of income unspent that year. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $269k to $197k (-27%), an average of -10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 5354%. Over the whole period it spent 50% of the income it received.

Among 19,475 United States charities whose main cause is community and economic development and that reported income, Dignitas Project sits at the 51st percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 56th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Child and Youth Development Center My Way Inc ($197k), Galveston Chamber Partnership Inc ($197k) and Daytons Bluff Construction Training Center ($197k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $567k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $567k.