California · Nonprofit
PROJECT MAANA
PROJECT MAANA (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,936 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Project Maana does
Mission
Project Maana exists to share the gospel and help break the cycle of poverty by investing in impoverished children, their families and communities through clean water, nutrition, education, and discipling projects.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Project Maana achieves its goals through individual and corporate donations, child sponsorships, and short-term mission trips. Short-term mission trips allow Project Maana's supporters a first-hand opportunity to serve and experience all of the blessings that Project Maana is able to deliver to extremely impoverished children and their families through their support. Project Maana also focuses on the continuous development of its staff, partners, and volunteers by attending (and hosting) conferences and training workshops.
$358,684 spent41% of program spendingEducation project - san pablo, dominican republic: during the 2024/2025 school year, Project Maana's private school provided an education to 210 children; grades: pre-k through 8th. During the 2025/2026 school year, Project Maana's private school provided an education to 142 children; grades: pre-k through 9th grade.cienfuegos, dominican republic: in 2025, Project Maana's community center offered after-school tutoring to 114 impoverished children, five days per week.
$265,110 spent30% of program spendingPrison project - in 2025, Project Maana's "institute for authentic manhood/womanhood"(tm) graduated 950 people (inmates, prison staff, and government officials). Of the total inmate graduates, many made the decision to receive jesus christ as their savior and were baptized by Project Maana inside the prison. As of december 31, 2025, Project Maana serves in 20 men's and 3 women's prisons in the dominican republic.timothy project - in 2025, the evangelical church that Project Maana launched in 2015 continues to thrive. Additionally, the timothy project provided benevolent gifts to impoverished people for medical services, school scholarships, groceries, and more. In june 2024, construction was completed on a new church & dormitory building.
$98,536 spent11% of program spendingLocal partner support
$88,423 spent10% of program spendingNutrition project - in 2025,Project Maana provided nutritious meals to an average of 418 impoverished children, five days per week.clean water project - in 2025, Project Maana's cumulative total of clean water filters distributed reached 1,389, providing a total of 76 million gallons of clean water annually to extremely impoverished families.
$71,833 spent8% of program spendingPrincess project - designed to provide impoverished girls with the opportunity to experience a quinceanera. Each girl is lent a beautiful dress to wear. In addition, she is gifted with a tiara and all her accessories to make her celebration very special. Then, Project Maana's team will plan an amazing celebration (with cake, photos, and decorations) together with the princess's family and friends. All princess project participants attend a multi-class program which teaches biblical womanhood and healthy maturity. In 2025, the cumulative total of girls who completed the princess project reached 63.
$371 spent0% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $882,957.
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 2020 to 2021, from $619k to $875k (+41%).
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.
29% of PROJECT MAANA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Nebraska Berman
Executive director
Board chair
Daniel Mcswain
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $35k → $11k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% 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 MAANA’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 MAANA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PROJECT MAANA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 65% · 2021 57% · 2022 70% · 2023 95% — 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
76% of PROJECT MAANA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $22k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states 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 MAANA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT MAANA
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MAANA: 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 MAANA?
- PROJECT MAANA (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,936 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT MAANA have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $92,936 in grants to PROJECT MAANA, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT MAANA?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT MAANA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 7 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