Projectcurate
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
Project Curate is a social impact enterprise specializing in public engagement on issues concerning race and religion through research, building social-intellectual community around custom curricula, and through community and civic engagement.
- Income
- $172,209
- Spending
- $200,785
- Spent on programs
- 64%
- Reserves
- 1.8 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
- Employees
- 3
- Volunteers
- 0
- Highest pay
- $53,542, chairman of the board
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Weak: 38 out of 100. Higher than 13% of charities in its peer group (religion, under $250k).
Reserves
10 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 1.8 months of spending.
Debt
20 of 20It owes 3% of what it owns.
Living within its means
0 of 15Spending exceeded income by 17% of income.
Income trend
0 of 15Income fell 69% on the year before.
Spending floor
8 of 1564% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 1 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 96% of charities in its peer group (religion, under $250k).
Independent board
25 of 254 of 5 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $129,392 spent. Project Curate is formed to help train individuals and communities understand and respond to underlying systemic issues related to urban living. This is done through group interaction, education,workshops and seminars.Experts in the field of Sociology,Religion,and Race, Contextual Theology and Human Development teach, train and develop both content and process related to creating unity, invoking social change and creating a collaborative network across racial, ethnic and economic boundaries. This includes building partnerships with other community organizations. Our core work is around curricula development and building intellectual / social community toward justice, equity and community and civic engagement goals. Our work ultimately seeks to enact an emancipatory ethos and practice of critical public engagement that moves people into spaces where they can dismantle barriers that tend to exist along the lines of class, race, sex, gender, and political orientation. Following CURRICULA & COHORTS: Our creative curricula bring together racially, socioeconomically, and religiously diverse communities to learn competencies in solidarity and form networks of transformation across the city. PUBLIC DIALOGUES: Throughout the year, Curate organizes and hosts events around pressing social issues to engage with different publics toward building broader and deeper coalitions. MULTIMEDIA: Curate also makes interventions through blogs and podcasts, and soon through an online digital publication, all of which delves deeper into issues that link religion and race to the ongoing work of struggling for human dignity intersectional justice. In 2021 activities included development of an internet based application to support the programs. CONSULTING & TRAINING: Project Curate provides additional, in-depth contextual analysis, strategic design, and leadership training for churches, civic organizations, ecclesial councils and leaders, foundations, and academic partners. COMMUNITY & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: We have a number of social justice advocates and community organizers on our team who work on issues of inequity, including those related to immigration, education, housing, and race. Throughout the year, we share strategies on how you can get involved at the local level or participate in Curates social incubator groups that engage in various collaborative, immersive, and relational community service projects that seek to take action on several issues.
- ImagiNoir/BLMHTX, a collective of academic researchers, activists, artists, religious leaders, and community organizers that aims to educate, empower, and build coalition in order to strengthen black communities and address issues that impact black lives is the city of Houston. The core pillars of the collective are critical dialogue, creative imagination, and coalition building. They leverage each of these pillars along with unique skills, talents, and passions of the collective members to create spaces that promote robust consideration of justice issues, imaginative blueprints for alternative, equity based community structures as wells as innovative, practical solutions to meet the needs of black Houstonians. In paticular, they seek to cultivate models of black leadership and community engagement that reject narrow approaches to movement building premised upon a solitary leader or spokesperson in favor of models grounded in interdependence, non-hieracrchy, and adaptaion.
- Mutual Relief program: Provide financial assistance for rent, utilities and other basic needs for underserved persons, including those adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since October 2015.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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