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PROJECT DYNAMO INC

EIN 87-2362688 NAPLES, FL

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Revenue 2025
$507,755
Expenses 2025
$1,237,422

Program services were 82.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q71
Classification
1000
Street
16 NEWBURY PL

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO DEPLOY PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES TO GLOBAL FLASHPOINTS WHERE THE US GOVERNMENT HAS LITTLE TO NO FORMAL DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY PRESENCE, EITHER REFUSED TO CONDUCT EVACUATIONS OF US PERSONS, ALLIES, OR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS OR WHERE THOSE EFFORTS HAVE PROVEN TO BE INSUFFICIENT. TO RELOCATE AMERICAN CITIZENS, PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS, ALLIES, AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS FROM THOSE CONFLICT ZONES TO REGIONAL SAFE HAVENS AND, WHEN POSSIBLE, TO REUNITE THEM WITH FAMILY MEMBERS AND ASSIST WITH THEIR RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES OR OTHER FRIENDLY/SAFE COUNTRIES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO EVACUATE UNITED STATES CITIZENS AND ALLIES FROM AFGHANISTAN AND NEIGHBORING REGIONS BY AIR AND GROUND TRANSPORATION

  • AFGHANISTAN: PREPARED, PLANNED, COORDINATED, AND EXECUTED THE ASSEMBLY OF GROUPS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS, AND CITIZENS OF ALLIED NATIONS WISHING AND LEGALLY ABLE TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN. CONTRACTED NECESSARY FOOD, HOUSING, AIR AND GROUND TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR EVACUEES PENDING EVACUATION. FACILITATED GOVERNMENT PROCESSING OF DOCUMENTS NECESSARY FOR INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. CONTRACTED OR OTHERWISE SECURED AIRCRAFT TO TRANSPORT EVACUEES FROM AFGHANISTAN TO THE UNITED STATES AND FACILITATED CONTINUED TRAVEL FROM THE INITIAL POINT OF ENTRY TO THEIR ULTIMATE DESTINATION. NOMAD: GROUND EVACUATION OPERATIONS FROM AFGHANISTAN TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES OF ALLIES AND PARTNERS TO NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES PROVIDING SAFE HAVEN. SLINGSHOT: AIR EVACUATION OF US PERSONS, LAWFUL RESIDENTS, AND VISA HOLDERS WHO ARE LEGALLY PERMITTED TO ENTER THE UNITED STATES, TO THE UNITED STATES FOR REUNIFICATION WITH FAMILIES. HOSTAGE RESCUES & SPECIAL OPERATIONS. THE TARGETED RESCUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS WHO ARE HELD HOSTAGE, UNLAWFULLY DETAINED, ILLEGALLY CHARGED, INCARCERATED OR ARE AT HIGH RISK OF BEING CAPTURED AND INTERROGATED BY FOREIGN POWERS MILITARIES, TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS, CRIMINAL ELEMENTS, OR INTELLIGENCE SERVICES. THESE ARE INTELLIGENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DRIVEN OPERATIONS USING THE FULL-SPECTRUM OF TRADECRAFT. MISSIONS INCLUDE: DETROIT LIONS, LONE STAR, RIO GRANDE, GREEN DEVIL, TWIN CITIES, KEYSTONE, HOLLYWOOD, OUTERBANKS, FOUR CORNERS, KBAR, STONE STREET, ALL STAR, AND TREE STUMP. UKRAINE. PREPARED, PLANNED, COORDINATED, AND EXECUTED THE RESCUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS, AND CITIZENS OF ALLIED NATIONS FROM UKRAINE AND RUSSIAN-OCCUPIED UKRAINE DURING THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE. PROVIDED FOOD, HOUSING, AIR AND GROUND TRANSPORTATION, AND MEDICAL SUPPORT FOR EVACUEES PENDING EVACUATION. OPERATION: APOLLO HUMANITARIAN RESCUE CONVOYS. FROM SMALL CARS TO 20-PASSENGER SPRINTER VANS TO LARGE 50-PASSENGER COACH BUSSES, WE HAVE EVACUATED VULNERABLE CIVILIANS FROM THE UKRAINIAN WAR-ZONE AND INSIDE THE RUSSIAN OCCUPIED AREAS TO NEIGHBORING NATO COUNTRIES. OVER 150 MISSIONS COMPLETED. OPERATION: GEMINI. AMERICAN AND WESTERN SURROGATE NEWBORN BABY RESCUE OPERATIONS. RESCUES OF NEWBORN BABIES BORN IN THE WAR-ZONE WHO ARE AMERICAN, BUT BORN TO UKRAINIAN SURROGATE MOTHERS. THESE OPERATIONS USE NEONATAL SPECIALISTS, DOCTORS, AND IF NEEDED, PREMATURE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT AMBULANCES. 60 OPERATIONS COMPLETED 68 GEMINI BABIES (MANY ARE TWINS). OPERATION: AQUARIUS. LIKE GEMINI MISSIONS, EXCEPT THE BABIES ARE NOT BORN YET. THIS IS THE TACTICAL EVACUATION OF PREGNANT UKRAINIAN SURROGATE MOTHERS CARRYING UNBORN AMERICAN OR WESTERN BABIES. THESE MISSIONS, ONCE COMPLETE, TURN INTO GEMINIS AFTER THE BABIES ARE BORN. THE WOMEN, AND THEIR FAMILIES, MUST BE EVACUATED FROM THE WAR ZONES AND OCCUPIED AREAS, BUT ARE FORCED TO REMAIN IN UKRAINE BECAUSE SURROGATE PREGNANCY IS NOT LEGAL IN MANY COUNTRIES. ONCE THEY GIVE BIRTH, DYNAMO EVACUATES THE BABIES AND OFTEN THE SURROGATE MOTHER AND HER FAMILY. OPERATION: ARIES HOSTILE MEDICAL EVACUATION OPERATIONS. CIVILIANS WHO ARE INJURED, HURT, INFIRMED, OR WOUNDED THAT ARE IN THE "HOT ZONE- OR THE OCCUPIED AREAS. PROJECT DYNAMO PROVIDES MEDICAL CARE WHEN, OFTEN, AN AMBULANCE IS NEEDED WITH A DYNAMO MEDICAL TEAM TO EVACUATE THEM. OPERATION: ATLAS BLIND AND DEAF RESCUE PROGRAM. DUE TO THEIR DISABILITY, THEY ARE EXTREMELY VULNERABLE IN THE WAR-ZONE AIR RAID SIRENS, BOMBS AND GUNSHOTS CANNOT BE SEEN OR HEARD, MAKING THEM EVEN MORE VULNERABLE IN AREAS OF WAR. OPERATION: VOYAGER HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR PROGRAM. BECAUSE THESE VULNERABLE PEOPLE ARE TWO-TIME VICTIMS OF GENOCIDAL WAR AND TEND TO BE ELDERLY, WE TREAT THESE CASES VERY SPECIAL. MOST VOYAGERS ARE TYPICALLY IN HIGH-RISK AREAS WHO CAME TO UKRAINE AS REFUGEES ESCAPING NAZI PERSECUTION DURING WWII. PROJECT DYNAMO CONDUCTS THE RESCUE, EVACUATES THEM TO SAFETY, AND THEN FLIES THEM TO ISRAEL. RUSSIA: SENSITIVE RESCUE OPERATIONS CONDUCTED INSIDE RUSSIA OF AMERICANS THAT ARE UNILATERAL, KINETIC, OR NON-NEGOTIATED. DYNAMO CONDUCTED THE FIRST OF THESE IN US/RUSSIAN HISTORY IN NOVEMBER 2022 BASED IN ESTONIA. OPERATION: PATHFINDER. RESCUE OF TWO AMERICAN CITIZENS IN RUSSIAN CUSTODY UNDER RUSSIAN CONTROL. O CNN COVERAGE OF AN OPERATION INSIDE RUSSIA TO RESCUE AMERICAN BABIES TRAPPED: HTTPS://WWW.CNN.COM/VIDEOS/WORLD/2022/11/24/RUSSIAN-ORPHANAGE-INFANT-TWI NS-TEXAS-FAMILY-PROJECT-DYNAMO-BRYAN-STERN-CPROG-ATH-VPX.CNN O MOSCOW TIMES - SAME OPERATION: HTTPS://WWW.THEMOSCOWTIMES.COM/2022/11/24/TWO-US-SURROGATE-BABIES-RESCUE D-FROM-RUSSIAN-ORPHANAGE-GROUP-SAYS-A79486 HURRICANE IAN (FLORIDA). OPERATION: HOME FRONT. IN OCTOBER 2022, HURRICANE IAN WAS BARRELING AND TRACKED TO HIT TAMPA WHERE PROJECT DYNAMO IS HEADQUARTERED. HURRICANE IAN CHANGED TRAJECTORY AND WAS PREDICTED TO THEN MAKE LANDFALL NEAR FORT MYERS. RECOGNIZING A CAT IV HURRICANE WOULD CAUSE TREMENDOUS DEVASTATION ON THE BARRIER ISLANDS AND INNOCENT CIVILIANS WOULD BE TRAPPED, PROJECT DYNAMO QUICKLY BUILT A PLAN, SET CONDITIONS FOR MARITIME AND AIR RESCUES, AND INITIATED OPERATIONS PRIOR TO SUNRISE ON DAY ONE. DYNAMO BOATS WERE IN THE WATER CONDUCTING RESCUES BEFORE LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL AGENCIES, EVEN THE U.S. COAST GUARD. OPERATION: NOAHS ARK. LARGE SCALE RESCUES OF PETS AND RARE ANIMALS TRAPPED IN BARRIER ISLANDS DURING HURRICANE IAN. COUNTER HUMAN TRAFFICKING. OPERATION: LIGHTHOUSE. PROJECT DYNAMO IS COMBATTING THE SCOURGE OF HUMANITY HUMAN TRAFFICKING. THE HORRIFIC ACTS EXPLOITING INNOCENT LIVES, ESPECIALLY CHILDREN, FOR LABOR AND THE SEX TRADES SHAKES THE VERY FOUNDATIONS OF OUR CIVILIZATION. DYNAMO'S OPERATION: LIGHTHOUSE, TAKES DIRECT ACTION AND SHINES A LIGHT ON THE DARKEST CORNERS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING, FOCUSED ON THE RESCUE OF THE MOST VULNERABLE VICTIMS: CHILDREN. THIS IS A WAR AGAINST THE MOST VILE FORMS OF HUMAN EXPLOITATION, A WAR THAT DEMANDS THE COURAGE, COMMITMENT, AND ACTION OF THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF PROJECT DYNAMO. CHINA/TAIWAN. OPERATION: MARCO POLO. PLANNING AND PREPARATION FOR AMERICAN AND ALLIED RESCUES IN RESPONSE TO THE LIKELY CHINESE INVASION OF TAIWAN AND POSSIBLE ABSENCE OF U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT.

    Expenses $1,025,641

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Stanley Bunner

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Brad Cohen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
  • Mario Duarte

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $507,755
    Expenses
    $1,237,422
    Contributions
    $492,036
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,233,553
    Expenses
    $2,074,152
    Contributions
    $1,199,827
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,814,944
    Expenses
    $2,407,527
    Contributions
    $2,466,329
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,866,556
    Expenses
    $2,570,725
    Contributions
    $3,866,556
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,829,184
    Expenses
    $1,504,062
    Assets (EOY)
    $375,122

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.