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KULA PROJECT INC

EIN 45-5273875 LYNCHBURG, VA

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Revenue 2025
$702,683
Expenses 2025
$828,471

Program services were 76.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C35
Classification
1200
Street
647 SELENE ST

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

Kula exists to eradicate poverty through the development of entrepreneurs in Rwanda's coffee communities. We operate at the intersection of economic development, environmental sustainability, and gender equality, providing a poverty (continued on Schedule O) graduation model that joins regenerative agriculture support with entrepreneurial development and business coaching, empowering coffee farmers to increase their household income and move out of extreme poverty and into a life of prosperity, vision, agency, and hope.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Kula exists to eradicate poverty through the development of entrepreneurs (continued on Schedule O) in Rwanda's coffee communities. We operate at the intersection of economic development, environmental sustainability, and gender equality, providing a poverty graduation model that joins regenerative agriculture support with entrepreneurial development and business coaching, empowering coffee farmers to increase their household income and move out of extreme poverty and into a life of prosperity, vision, agency, and hope.

  • KULA Fellowship: The Kula Fellowship joins regenerative agriculture, household entrepreneurship, and personal coaching to equip coffee farming families to move out of extreme poverty and into a life of prosperity, vision, agency, and hope.

    Expenses $633,484 · Grants $475,935

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.

  • Nicholas Lauten

    Board Chair and Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $102,600
    From this org
    $96,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $6,600
    Hours/week
    45

  • Rebecca Pape

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Zane Wilemon

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Laura Peterson

    Board Member

    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
    $702,683
    Expenses
    $828,471
    Contributions
    $690,322
    Grants paid
    $475,935
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,004,964
    Expenses
    $873,995
    Contributions
    $985,136
    Grants paid
    $420,833
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $622,797
    Expenses
    $767,538
    Contributions
    $737,115
    Grants paid
    $352,372
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $899,916
    Expenses
    $828,996
    Contributions
    $897,053
    Grants paid
    $474,566

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

  • 2025 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $916,217
    Expenses
    $749,468
    Assets (EOY)
    $444,774

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $776,370
    Expenses
    $644,068
    Assets (EOY)
    $302,383

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $369,960
    Expenses
    $415,041
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,997

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $348,266
    Expenses
    $310,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $87,751

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $276,375
    Expenses
    $282,680
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,850

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 2013

Tax period
1 January 2013 to 31 December 2013
Principal officer
James Sasson
Mailing address
2895 Leafwood Dr SEMarietta GA 30067
Website
Kulaproject.org
Doing business as
Kula Project Inc

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

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • Kula Project Inc

    To develop entrepreneurs in Rwanda through a 15-month training course. · RW

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Related corporations and trusts on its 2025 return

  • KPI Investments LTD

    C · Coffee processing and export · RW · 100% owned

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.