Project Dynamo Inc, operating under the name Project Dynamo, is located in Naples, FL. According to its NTEE Classification (Q71) the organization is classified as: International Migration & Refugee Issues, under the broad grouping of International, Foreign Affairs & National Security and related organizations. This organization is an independent organization and not affiliated with a larger national or regional group of organizations. Project Dynamo is a 501(c)(3) and as such, is described as a "Charitable or Religous organization or a private foundation" by the IRS.
For the year ending 12/2023, Project Dynamo generated $2.8m in total revenue. This organization has experienced exceptional growth, as over the past 3 years, it has increased revenue by an average of 15.5% each year . All expenses for the organization totaled $2.4m during the year ending 12/2023. While expenses have increased by 17.0% per year over the past 3 years. They've been increasing with an increasing level of total revenue. You can explore the organizations financials more deeply in the financial statements section below.
Form
990
Mission & Program ActivityExcerpts From the 990 Filing
TAX YEAR
2023
Describe the Organization's Mission:
Part 3 - Line 1
TO EVACUATE UNITED STATES CITIZENS AND ALLIES FROM AFGHANISTAN AND NEIGHBORING REGIONS BY AIR AND GROUND TRANSPORATION
Describe the Organization's Program Activity:
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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.
Name (title) | Role | Hours | Compensation |
---|---|---|---|
Stanley Bunner Director | Trustee | 25 | $0 |
Brad Cohen Director | Trustee | 40 | $0 |
Mario Duarte Principal Of | Trustee | 40 | $0 |
Statement of Revenue | |
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Federated campaigns | $0 |
Membership dues | $0 |
Fundraising events | $0 |
Related organizations | $0 |
Government grants | $2,466,329 |
All other contributions, gifts, grants, and similar amounts not included above | $0 |
Noncash contributions included in lines 1a–1f | $0 |
Total Revenue from Contributions, Gifts, Grants & Similar | $2,466,329 |
Total Program Service Revenue | $0 |
Investment income | -$3,155 |
Tax Exempt Bond Proceeds | $0 |
Royalties | $0 |
Net Rental Income | $0 |
Net Gain/Loss on Asset Sales | $0 |
Net Income from Fundraising Events | $0 |
Net Income from Gaming Activities | $0 |
Net Income from Sales of Inventory | $0 |
Miscellaneous Revenue | $0 |
Total Revenue | $2,814,944 |
Statement of Expenses | |
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Grants and other assistance to domestic organizations and domestic governments. | $0 |
Grants and other assistance to domestic individuals. | $0 |
Grants and other assistance to Foreign Orgs/Individuals | $0 |
Benefits paid to or for members | $0 |
Compensation of current officers, directors, key employees. | $0 |
Compensation of current officers, directors, key employees. | $0 |
Compensation to disqualified persons | $0 |
Other salaries and wages | $0 |
Pension plan accruals and contributions | $0 |
Other employee benefits | $0 |
Payroll taxes | $0 |
Fees for services: Management | $0 |
Fees for services: Legal | $63,611 |
Fees for services: Accounting | $5,920 |
Fees for services: Lobbying | $0 |
Fees for services: Fundraising | $0 |
Fees for services: Investment Management | $0 |
Fees for services: Other | $0 |
Advertising and promotion | $606,850 |
Office expenses | $38,415 |
Information technology | $0 |
Royalties | $0 |
Occupancy | $19,499 |
Travel | $0 |
Payments of travel or entertainment expenses for any federal, state, or local public officials | $0 |
Conferences, conventions, and meetings | $0 |
Interest | $2,053 |
Payments to affiliates | $0 |
Depreciation, depletion, and amortization | $998 |
Insurance | $2,304 |
All other expenses | $319 |
Total functional expenses | $2,407,527 |
Balance Sheet | |
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Cash—non-interest-bearing | $2,012,872 |
Savings and temporary cash investments | $0 |
Pledges and grants receivable | $0 |
Accounts receivable, net | $0 |
Loans from Officers, Directors, or Controlling Persons | $0 |
Loans from Disqualified Persons | $0 |
Notes and loans receivable | $0 |
Inventories for sale or use | $0 |
Prepaid expenses and deferred charges | $0 |
Net Land, buildings, and equipment | $9,140 |
Investments—publicly traded securities | $93,373 |
Investments—other securities | $0 |
Investments—program-related | $0 |
Intangible assets | $0 |
Other assets | $0 |
Total assets | $2,115,385 |
Accounts payable and accrued expenses | $40,386 |
Grants payable | $0 |
Deferred revenue | $0 |
Tax-exempt bond liabilities | $0 |
Escrow or custodial account liability | $0 |
Loans and other payables to any current Officer, Director, or Controlling Person | $0 |
Secured mortgages and notes payable | $0 |
Unsecured mortgages and notes payable | $0 |
Other liabilities | $0 |
Total liabilities | $40,386 |
Net assets without donor restrictions | $2,074,999 |
Net assets with donor restrictions | $0 |
Capital stock or trust principal, or current funds | $0 |
Paid-in or capital surplus, or land, building, or equipment fund | $0 |
Retained earnings, endowment, accumulated income, or other funds | $0 |
Total liabilities and net assets/fund balances | $2,115,385 |
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---|---|---|
Project Dynamo Inc Naples, FL | $2,115,385 | $2,814,944 |
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