Oregon · Nonprofit
PROJECT LIVING HOPE
PROJECT LIVING HOPE (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,916 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $653k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $148k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Project Living Hope does
Mission
We exist to empower haitians to build a stronger haiti. We combat poverty by empowering individuals through christian discipleship in four key areas: athletics, job skills training, disaster preparedness and community development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth athletics: the youth of haiti have few options for safe play and few opportunities to grow and learn within positive environments. At the same time, they face many temptations to turn to unhealthy or criminal lifestyles. The plh athletics program and academy provides kids with a safe place to play, a coaching staff that cares about them, and an opportunity to grow in both their sport and their life. The soccer and basketball programs serves youth ages seven to eighteen. Our academy coaches and staff provide sports training, encouragement and positive influence, and help to train the youth holistically in sport, faith, and their future. In 2025, 500 youth participated in plh athletics. Every day, youth come to participate in soccer and basketball on the plh campus.
$139,014 spent$170 earned by the program36% of program spendingJob skills training: courses and virtual workshopsthe plh institute provides classes and workshops for members of the community and the surrounding areas. We offer weekly courses in english language studies and artisan crafts, serving 240 youth. In 2025, we also offered seven virtual courses taught by professionals in the states. These course topics included auto mechanics, solar energy, coachings, and pastoral ministries. These courses trained 160 adults.
$76,787 spent$7,928 earned by the program20% of program spendingCommunity development and disaster preparedness: plh continues to partnered with the 16 churches in camp marie, haiti, to provide emergency food relief to families most in need within the community. With the continued support of churches in the states, plh was able to provide food assistance to 500 community members as well as 500 displaced people who sought refuge in our community. Plh also provides a meal to our youth participants on saturdays to fuel their bodies and keep them healthy during this time of food insecurity. In december, plh partnered with the local churches to organize 15 gatherings throughout town to spread hope and provide a hot meal for more than 2,500 people.
$167,886 spent44% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $383,687.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $821k to $1.1M (+30%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of PROJECT LIVING HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Guesly Dessieux
Executive director
Board chair
Sarah Comstock
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $100 → $23k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PROJECT LIVING HOPE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PROJECT LIVING HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
PROJECT LIVING HOPE draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $216 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PROJECT LIVING HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT LIVING HOPE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT LIVING HOPE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT LIVING HOPE?
- PROJECT LIVING HOPE (Oregon) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $147,916 to it, the largest being M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST ($135,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT LIVING HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $147,916 in grants to PROJECT LIVING HOPE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT LIVING HOPE?
- M J MURDOCK CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT LIVING HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing