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PROJECT HOPE AND FAIRNESS

EIN 20-3269307 CAMBRIA, CA

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Revenue 2025
$66,137
Expenses 2025
$71,010

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q33
Classification
1000
Street
1298 WARREN RD

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 assist African cocoa farmers who suffer disproportionately from the inequities in the world cocoa trade with particular focus on the participation of chocolate producers and consumers in the United States.

  • 1. Promoting the sustainability of African cocoa farmers through direct charitable assistance (grants and in-kind contributions);2. Educating American consumers regarding the realities of the world cocoa market and the inequalities being suffered by African cocoa farmers in particular; and3. Pressure producers of the world's cocoa products to adopt "Fair Trade" policies that will benefit African cocoa farmers.

    Expenses $71,010

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • Don Maruska

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggie Bates

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Peggy Papathakis

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Nicholson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Monty Rice

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $66,137
    Expenses
    $71,010
    Contributions
    $66,137
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $92,178
    Expenses
    $66,804
    Contributions
    $92,178
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $74,671
    Expenses
    $76,513
    Contributions
    $74,671
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $30,782
    Expenses
    $58,661
    Contributions
    $30,782
    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-EZ

    Revenue
    $92,606
    Expenses
    $46,458
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,765

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Monty Rice
Mailing address
1298 WARREN ROADCAMBRIA CA 93428
Website
ProjectHopeAndFairness.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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.