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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS INC

EIN 33-0677892 POWAY, CA

Revenue 2024
$966,943
Expenses 2024
$975,507

Program services were 91.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
L20
Classification
1000
Street
12648 CHERRYWOOD 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 · 2024

Mission

The goal of Project Mercy is the improvement of basic living standards and quality of life for impoverished families who live in conditions precarious to their health in the shantytowns of the colonias east of Tijuana, Mexico.

  • Project Mercy provided materials and constructed 78 houses in 2024. These were wood rame houses with painted plywood exterior built on 16 ft by 20 ft concrete slabs. In addition, Project Mercy provided materials to construct 78 outhouse latrines. These comprise a concrete block contained latrine pit and a wooden outhouse, with ceramic toilets. Donation of food, school supplies and furnishings were also made to the same general community, as well as a small amount of medical aid where needed.

    Expenses $801,182

  • Project Mercy oversaw the running of the San Nicholas school for 62 children in the neighborhood of San Nicolas and facilitated events such as Fiestas and Christmas parties. Also included initial expenses for second school being built in Eliyahu region.

    Expenses $94,295

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Paula Claussen

    President

    Total calculated
    $30,000
    From this org
    $30,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Zawis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Gary Stemple

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • David Mason

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • Alfredo D'Escragnolle

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Bob Penner

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Eric Dye

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Douglas Hoffman

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Devin Beale

    Director

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $966,943
    Expenses
    $975,507
    Contributions
    $950,325
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $878,395
    Expenses
    $838,132
    Contributions
    $874,216
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $724,744
    Expenses
    $707,459
    Contributions
    $723,568
    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
    $636,124
    Expenses
    $449,932
    Assets (EOY)
    $386,700

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $222,734
    Expenses
    $237,763
    Assets (EOY)
    $207,772

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $588,188
    Expenses
    $566,298
    Assets (EOY)
    $215,441

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $504,662
    Expenses
    $468,940
    Assets (EOY)
    $195,971

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $505,883
    Expenses
    $397,235
    Assets (EOY)
    $156,599

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $374,087
    Expenses
    $381,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,951

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $365,683
    Expenses
    $356,014
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,173

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $285,102
    Expenses
    $258,367
    Assets (EOY)
    $45,504

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.