California · Nonprofit
PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,380,591 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($429,950). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Project Mexico of the Orthodox Church does
Mission
Project mexico involves volunteers from the us and canada in the alleviation of suffering by (1) building homes for mexico's poor and (2) operating st. Innocent orphanage in tijuana, a home for abused teenage boys. It is the only facility of its type in all of tijuana.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
St. Innocent orphanage rescues orphaned and abandoned boys and gives them a chance to live successful, productive lives. The boys receive a quality education, learn vocational skills, participate in sports, receive psychological counseling and are trained in the christian life. All of this, plus a structured and loving environment, allows a miraculous transformation to occur. Instead of fending for themselves on streets filled with crime, drugs, and prostitution, they now have the freedom to prepare for a bright future and to become givers, not takers. The mexican government has recognized st. Innocent orphanage as the best in the state. We had over 88 boys in our programs; 27 boys and 36 infants were served at the orphanage during the year ended august 2025.
$1,566,123 spent75% of program spendingSince inception, project mexico has built over 503 homes for the poor in mexico with the help of nearly 18,210 volunteers from 49 us states, many canadian provinces and 11 foreign countries. Many families endure squalid conditions in dirt-floor shacks pieced together with cardboard, old tarps and wooden pallets. With no protection from the elements, children and elderly often die during cold rainstorms. The lack of security in their flimsy shacks makes them easy victims for thieves. A project mexico home provides a concrete floor, solid walls and roof, a warm interior, and a locking door. This is a quantum leap forward for impoverished mexican families and gives them hope for the future. 27 homes were built and 201,392 volunteer hours were donated during the year ended august 2025.
$519,308 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,085,431.
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 $2.1M to $3.2M (+52%).
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.
99% of PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Nicholoas L Andruchow
Executive director
Board chair
Dennis Awad
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $30k → $192k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH’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 MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 31% · 2019 55% · 2020 43% · 2021 58% · 2022 43% · 2023 31% — 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.
How long its funders stay
38% of PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
81% of PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH'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 $258k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside California, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,607 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Casa Hogar San Inocencio Para Varones Adolecentes · exempt
- F-43754-1 Mexico Land Trust Co Bbva Bancomer Paseo de Los Heroes · corp_trust
- F-24814-6 Mexico Land Trust Co Bbva Bancomer Paseo de Los Heroes · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH?
- PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,380,591 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($429,950). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,380,591 in grants to PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $429,950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT MEXICO OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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