Project Return Inc

Analysis

Project Return Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Milwaukee, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1982, 44 years ago. Its declared purposes cover mental health and crisis intervention, 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, Project Return Inc reported income of $545k and spending of $585k, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $447k to $545k (+22%), an average of +5.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 97% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Project Return Inc sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 71st percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include RZP Foundation Inc ($545k), Cross Timbers Family Services ($545k) and Vaughan Memorial Foundation Inc ($545k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 102% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $82k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $238k. It paid $7,535 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $200k against liabilities of $35k, net assets of $165k. It reported 7 employees.