Is it real?
Yes. Never revoked by the IRS. Latest filing on record: FY2025. IRS ruling in Jan 2020.
IRS Pub. 78 · IRS Auto-Revocation List · IRS Business Master File
Where the money goes
90 cents of each dollar spent went to programs.
Form 990 Part IX, line 25, columns B–D. Every line is in By the numbers.
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Who runs it and what they're paid
12 people listed on the 990; $105K paid to officers and key staff (Part VII, Section A).
Nick Ward’s $55K as Co-Director is at the 57th percentile of top reported officer pay among 2133 $100K–1M religion nonprofits. Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 3 named individuals · Part VII
| Name | FY2025 | FY2024 | FY2022 | FY2021 | FY2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nick Ward | $55,278 | — | — | — | — |
| Alan Amavisca | $14,475 | $35,157 | $48,088 | $33,871 | $42,491 |
| Ken Schemmer II | $35,344 | — | — | — | — |
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
See North County Project executive salaries →Questions the 990 asks
The form asks each of these directly. These are the filed answers.
- Family or business ties among officersPt VI · Ln 2No
- Top official's pay set by an independent reviewPt VI · Ln 15aYes
Programs and updates
Discipleship and leadership training for Christians and non-Christians.
Questions for North County Project
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Training and Outreach
Our goal this year was to focus on training more people and therebyexpand our outreach throughout north orange county. As far as thetraining we trained 22 people for personal evangelism, 5 new prayerwalkers, started 15 new disciple-making communities, trained 27 newevangelists at cal state university of fullerton or beyound (including…
Disciple-Making Communities (dmc) (for Emerging Leaders)
One of our main goals is through disciple-making community (DMC). The way we do disciple-making is through taking emerging leaders through the disciple-making community series. The DMC series is four modules that take approximately one year the last step of this series is what we call the lab.
North County Project Apprenticeship
We have been able to locally source apprentices from our church network in north orange county, as well as receive apprentices from other states through partnerships with other ministries. These workers serve in a variety of capacitiessome as volunteers, some transitioning toward staff roles, and some not paid directly through our…
Funders
Who pays for it.
From grant filings on record. Receipts are incomplete: individual donors are never listed.
Grants
By the numbers
The FY2025 990, line by line.
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| Line | Start FY25 | End FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Cash and savingsLn 1–2 | $221K | $260K |
| Land, buildings, equipmentLn 10c | $146 | $88 |
| Total assetsLn 16 | $222K | $260K |
| LiabilitiesLn 26 | $0 | $0 |
| Net assetsLn 32 | $222K | $260K |
| Line | Total | Programs | Management | Fundraising |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay of officers and key staff (Part IX, line 5)Ln 5 | $105K | $105K | ||
| Other salaries and wagesLn 7 | $187K | $187K | ||
| Payroll taxesLn 10 | $2K | $2K | ||
| Accounting feesLn 11c | $2K | $2K | ||
| Advertising and promotionLn 12 | $1K | $1K | ||
| Information technologyLn 14 | $7K | $7K | ||
| TravelLn 17 | $2K | $150 | $2K | |
| Conferences, conventions and meetingsLn 19 | $1K | $1K | ||
| Depreciation, depletion and amortizationLn 22 | $58 | $58 | ||
| Other expenses (24a–d)Ln 24 | $27K | $12K | $9K | $6K |
| All other expensesLn 24e | $18K | $4K | $14K | |
| Total functional expensesLn 25 | $353K | $319K | $27K | $7K |
Filing history
| Year | Money in | Money out | In minus out | Net assets | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 Latest ViewingFiled with the IRS Dec 4, 2025 | $392K | $353K | $39K | $260K | 990 PDF |
| FY2024Filed with the IRS Dec 3, 2024 | $372K | $371K | $1K | $222K | 990 PDF |
| FY2023 | Not on file | ||||
| FY2022Filed with the IRS Jun 29, 2023 | $187K | $167K | $20K | $210K | 990 PDF |
| FY2021Filed with the IRS Sep 6, 2022 | $316K | $290K | $27K | $190K | 990 PDF |
| FY2020Filed with the IRS Jul 30, 2021 | $237K | $224K | $13K | $163K | 990 PDF |
Schedules filed Part IV
See the full FY2025 990
Part I · Summary $391,524 revenue, 12 lines filed
Part VI · Governance 7 of 9 board members independent, no flags
Part VIII · Statement of revenue $391,524 across 4 lines filed
Part IX · Statement of functional expenses $352,919 across 11 lines filed
Part X · Balance sheet $260,230 assets, 9 lines filed
Part XI · Reconciliation of net assets $260,230 net assets at year end
Form 990 e-file (XML) FY2025 from the IRS · Classification, formation year and address from the IRS Business Master File
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