California · Nonprofit
PROJECT PEARLS USA INC
PROJECT PEARLS USA INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,972 to it, the largest being GOOD HOPE SEEDERS ($67,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $498k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $333k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Project Pearls USA Inc does
Mission
Helping the poorest of the poor children and families in the Philippines to have a better life through education, literacy, empowerment, nutrition and health care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Education Programs - we are able to send 763 beneficiaries to school from preschool to college through the Scholarship Program. Education programs that support these scholars include After School Program, Brain Booster Program, Literacy Clubs, Career Counseling, Mentorship Program. Including Empowerment and livelihood Program.
$214,806 spentof which $161,029 as grants44% of program spendingFeeding Program. We serve daily breakfast for hundreds of children. The Feeding Program also includes daily breakfast for preschool scholars; Birthday Program where we celebrate our beneficiaries birthdays off site; it also includes thousands of meals and hundreds of grocery packs for hundreds of families during Christmas time.
$142,354 spentof which $46,525 as grants29% of program spendingHealth Care Programs - we provide free medical check-ups and medicines to children and families in the communities we serve. We also provide medical and dental missions. We also help out in paying medical bills and funeral expenses.
$11,784 spentof which $13,025 as grants2% of program spendingTotal Program Services Expenses: Advertising/Promotional, Conferences, Information Technology, Occupancy, Utilities and Maintenance; Office/General Administration Expenses, Payroll, Health Care, Payroll Expenses
$119,761 spent25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $488,705.
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 2019 to 2020, from $31k to $186k (+503%).
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.
100% of PROJECT PEARLS USA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Melissa Villa
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $46k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 PEARLS USA INC’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 PEARLS USA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
74% 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 PEARLS USA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 58% · 2022 34% · 2023 48% — 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
25% of PROJECT PEARLS USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
82% of PROJECT PEARLS USA INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 PEARLS USA INC has grown faster than half of the 4,527 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,527 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT PEARLS USA INC
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
100% 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
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT PEARLS USA INC: 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 PEARLS USA INC?
- PROJECT PEARLS USA INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $332,972 to it, the largest being GOOD HOPE SEEDERS ($67,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT PEARLS USA INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $332,972 in grants to PROJECT PEARLS USA INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT PEARLS USA INC?
- GOOD HOPE SEEDERS is the largest funder on record, with $67,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT PEARLS USA INC 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 15 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing