The Guatemala Project

Analysis

The Guatemala Project is a registered charity in United States, based in Iowa City, IA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2013, 13 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, The Guatemala Project reported income of $233k and spending of $218k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $262k to $233k (-11%), an average of -5.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 25%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, The Guatemala Project sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 57th percentile, and in the 58th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Building Believers in Christ ($233k), Friends of Accion Inc ($233k) and Into Abbas Arms Foundation ($233k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 16% and program service revenue 84% of the total. At year end it held assets of $39k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $39k.