Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
An international health organization, EIN 53-0242962, whose tax year 2020 federal return put its headquarters on the Carter Hall land at Millwood and described the property as also serving as a conference center. Its own history page dates its incorporation to December 29, 1958 and names Dr. William B. Walsh as founder. Clarke County's assessment record carries a 2021 transfer of the Carter Hall parcel away from a grantor of that name. When it arrived, when it left, and what it held title to are not in the records read here.
Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
An international health organization, EIN 53-0242962, that has been headquartered on the Carter Hall land at Millwood. Its own 2020 federal return described the estate as a donated landmark that also serves as a conference and continuing-education venue; a $5,750,000 transfer in 2020 is on the county's assessment record.
The Project HOPE that shows up on Carter Hall is Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc., a US-registered charity under EIN 53-0242962. The organization's own returns, the IRS master-file extract, and its website all point to the same legal entity1. Project HOPE's own history page states it was incorporated on December 29, 1958, names Dr. William B. Walsh as its founder, and gives the same tax identification number2.
The foundation is not just headquartered on Carter Hall's land — it is legally landowner. On its tax year 2020 Form 990, filed November 12, 2021, the organization stated that its donated landmarks include "THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA," that the foundation uses the site as its headquarters, and that it also serves as a conference and continuing-education venue1.
The county's assessment record documents a matching land transfer. A grantor named "PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FDN INC" moved the parcel for $5,750,000 by instrument recorded at Deed Book 687 page 634, with a Sale Date field of 08/25/20201. The direction of the transfer — from Project HOPE, not to it — is worth naming: the foundation appears in the county's grantor field, meaning it conveyed the parcel out. Whether the recorded conveyance is to a related entity, to a preservation group, or to a third-party buyer is what the actual deed instrument, not the assessment summary, would settle.
Four claims establish the corporate identity of the Project HOPE that appears at Carter Hall, its founding year and founder, its own 2020 statement about the property, and the county's record of a $5,750,000 transfer that same summer. Missing: the actual text of the recorded conveyance at Deed Book 687 page 634, which would clarify whether the 2020 transfer moved the estate to a preservation entity, a related foundation, or a third party. The Clarke County deed-book packet in the September strategy memo would open it.
Evidence
See the source and its limits
The Project HOPE associated with Carter Hall is Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc., employer identification number 53-0242962. Its own filed returns, the IRS master-file extract and its own website agree on that name and that number.
What the source supports
Which legal organization the name refers to, anchored to a single federal identifier that appears in the organization's own filings.
Uncertainty
The three sources agree on the EIN and the name. They do not agree on address and are not three independent witnesses: the master-file extract and the website both describe the present and give 1101 Connecticut Ave NW, while the four returns read are dated filings giving 1220 19th St NW, and the master file is derived from what filers and the IRS record rather than an independent observation. The corroboration is of identity, not of any address over time.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The filer block of the organization's own return: EIN and the legal name across two name lines.
Form 990 for Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc, tax year 2020 (original e-filed return, IRS object id 202103169349303080)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (filer); Internal Revenue Service (publisher) · 2021-11-12 (filing)
Locator: Return header, filer block: EIN and BusinessName lines 1 and 2
Relevant passagePROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE / HEALTH FOUNDATION INC; EIN 530242962
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs-filings-530242962. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The IRS master-file row, which agrees on EIN and name and differs on address.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File extract, District of Columbia (eo_dc.csv), row for EIN 53-0242962
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Row for EIN 530242962: EIN, NAME, STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP fields
Relevant passage530242962,PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC,...,1101 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 500,WASHINGTON,DC,20036-4325
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs-master-file. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The organization's own page, which states the same identifier. It is the third of the three sources the claim names.
Project HOPE history page (the organization's own website, read September 11, 2026)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: History page, 1958 entry and tax-identification line: founder named as Dr. William B. Walsh
Relevant passageProject HOPE is incorporated on December 29th … Tax ID #: 53-0242962
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: project-hope-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See the source and its limits
Project HOPE's own history page states that the organization was incorporated on December 29, 1958, names Dr. William B. Walsh as its founder, and gives its tax identification number as 53-0242962.
What the source supports
The organization's published account of its own founding, and a third statement of the identifier by the organization itself.
Uncertainty
The organization's own account, not an inspected certificate of incorporation or a state corporate record. The page names no state of incorporation. An incorporation date, the date federal tax exemption was recognized, and the opening of any particular facility are three different events and are not treated here as one: the IRS master-file record for this organization carries a ruling value of January 1999, which is a recognition-record date and not an incorporation date. The page does not mention Millwood or Carter Hall.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The organization's own history page.
Project HOPE history page (the organization's own website, read September 11, 2026)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: History page, 1958 entry and tax-identification line: founder named as Dr. William B. Walsh
Relevant passageProject HOPE is incorporated on December 29th … Tax ID #: 53-0242962
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: project-hope-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See the source and its limits
On its tax year 2020 Form 990, filed November 12, 2021, the organization stated that the landmarks donated to it include “THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA,” that “THE FOUNDATION HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS LOCATED ON THIS LAND,” and that it “ALSO USES THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A CONFERENCE CENTER.”
What the source supports
That the organization itself, in a return filed under EIN 53-0242962, described Carter Hall as its headquarters and as a conference property. The link between the organization and the place therefore rests on the filer's own statement rather than on matching names between two systems.
Uncertainty
This is the organization's account of itself in a filed return, not an independent observation. Schedule D Part III line 4 is a description, and the return does not say whether it speaks to the tax year or to the filing date. It gives no start date, no end date, and no statement about who held title. It describes the estate as donated but does not say by whom or when.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The filer's own Schedule D passage. This is the load-bearing link between the organization and the property.
Form 990 for Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc, tax year 2020 (original e-filed return, IRS object id 202103169349303080)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (filer); Internal Revenue Service (publisher) · 2021-11-12 (filing)
Locator: Schedule D, supplemental information, form-and-line reference "PART III, LINE 4:"
Relevant passageHISTORICAL LANDMARKS AND COLLECTIONS DONATED TO PROJECT HOPE INCLUDING THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA. THE BUILDINGS ARE LOCATED ON A LARGE PIECE OF LAND AND THE FOUNDATION HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS LOCATED ON THIS LAND. PROJECT HOPE ALSO USES THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A CONFERENCE CENTER.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs-filings-530242962. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See the source and its limits
Clarke County's assessment record for that parcel carries a transfer from a grantor named “PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FDN INC” at $5,750,000, citing instrument Deed Book 687 page 634, with a Sale Date field reading 08/25/2021. The same record carries an earlier acquisition instrument, D-124-616, at a sale price of $0.
What the source supports
That the county's assessment system records a transfer of the Carter Hall parcel away from a grantor bearing the organization's name, and cites the instrument by book and page.
Uncertainty
This is the county's index of a recorded instrument, not the instrument. No deed was read. The page labels its column “Sale Date” and defines it nowhere, so whether the figure records execution, recording or the assessor's transfer date is not established, and it must not be read as a date of occupancy: a title record is not an occupancy record. The county identifies its grantor by name only — no county record read carries an EIN — so the link to EIN 53-0242962 rests on name correspondence together with the organization's own return naming the same property. The grantor and date of the $0 instrument did not render in the retrieved page, and a $0 price in an assessment system does not by itself establish a gift.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The county assessment record's Sales History row for the 2021 transfer.
Clarke County, Virginia assessment (CAMA) property record, account 5981 — Carter Hall
Clarke County, Virginia (assessment system operated by Concise Systems) · 2026-09-05 (publication)
Locator: Legal description and Sales History table: Grantor, Sale Price, Instrument, Number of Tracts, Sale Date
Relevant passageLegal Desc 1: CARTER HALL ON RT 255. Sales History: PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FDN INC | $5,750,000 | DEED BOOK-687-634 | 1 | 08/25/2021
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: complicates. The second Sales History row, at $0, whose grantor and date did not render. Recorded because it is the only trace of an acquisition in these records and it dates nothing.
Clarke County, Virginia assessment (CAMA) property record, account 5981 — Carter Hall
Clarke County, Virginia (assessment system operated by Concise Systems) · 2026-09-05 (publication)
Locator: Sales History table, second row: Grantor and Sale Date did not render in the retrieved page
Relevant passage$0 | D-124-616 | 1
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
What the sources support
The Project HOPE associated with Carter Hall is Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc., employer identification number 53-0242962. Its own filed returns, the IRS master-file extract and its own website agree on that name and that number.
See the source and its limits
The Project HOPE associated with Carter Hall is Project HOPE – The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc., employer identification number 53-0242962. Its own filed returns, the IRS master-file extract and its own website agree on that name and that number.
What the source supports
Which legal organization the name refers to, anchored to a single federal identifier that appears in the organization's own filings.
Uncertainty
The three sources agree on the EIN and the name. They do not agree on address and are not three independent witnesses: the master-file extract and the website both describe the present and give 1101 Connecticut Ave NW, while the four returns read are dated filings giving 1220 19th St NW, and the master file is derived from what filers and the IRS record rather than an independent observation. The corroboration is of identity, not of any address over time.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The filer block of the organization's own return: EIN and the legal name across two name lines.
Form 990 for Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc, tax year 2020 (original e-filed return, IRS object id 202103169349303080)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (filer); Internal Revenue Service (publisher) · 2021-11-12 (filing)
Locator: Return header, filer block: EIN and BusinessName lines 1 and 2
Relevant passagePROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE / HEALTH FOUNDATION INC; EIN 530242962
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs-filings-530242962. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The IRS master-file row, which agrees on EIN and name and differs on address.
IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File extract, District of Columbia (eo_dc.csv), row for EIN 53-0242962
Internal Revenue Service · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: Row for EIN 530242962: EIN, NAME, STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP fields
Relevant passage530242962,PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC,...,1101 CONNECTICUT AVE NW STE 500,WASHINGTON,DC,20036-4325
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs-master-file. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: supports. The organization's own page, which states the same identifier. It is the third of the three sources the claim names.
Project HOPE history page (the organization's own website, read September 11, 2026)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: History page, 1958 entry and tax-identification line: founder named as Dr. William B. Walsh
Relevant passageProject HOPE is incorporated on December 29th … Tax ID #: 53-0242962
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: project-hope-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
On its tax year 2020 Form 990, filed November 12, 2021, the organization stated that the landmarks donated to it include “THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA,” that “THE FOUNDATION HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS LOCATED ON THIS LAND,” and that it “ALSO USES THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A CONFERENCE CENTER.”
See the source and its limits
On its tax year 2020 Form 990, filed November 12, 2021, the organization stated that the landmarks donated to it include “THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA,” that “THE FOUNDATION HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS LOCATED ON THIS LAND,” and that it “ALSO USES THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A CONFERENCE CENTER.”
What the source supports
That the organization itself, in a return filed under EIN 53-0242962, described Carter Hall as its headquarters and as a conference property. The link between the organization and the place therefore rests on the filer's own statement rather than on matching names between two systems.
Uncertainty
This is the organization's account of itself in a filed return, not an independent observation. Schedule D Part III line 4 is a description, and the return does not say whether it speaks to the tax year or to the filing date. It gives no start date, no end date, and no statement about who held title. It describes the estate as donated but does not say by whom or when.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The filer's own Schedule D passage. This is the load-bearing link between the organization and the property.
Form 990 for Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation Inc, tax year 2020 (original e-filed return, IRS object id 202103169349303080)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. (filer); Internal Revenue Service (publisher) · 2021-11-12 (filing)
Locator: Schedule D, supplemental information, form-and-line reference "PART III, LINE 4:"
Relevant passageHISTORICAL LANDMARKS AND COLLECTIONS DONATED TO PROJECT HOPE INCLUDING THE CARTER HALL ESTATE AND MULTIPLE HISTORICAL BUILDINGS IN MILLWOOD, VIRGINIA. THE BUILDINGS ARE LOCATED ON A LARGE PIECE OF LAND AND THE FOUNDATION HAS ITS HEADQUARTERS LOCATED ON THIS LAND. PROJECT HOPE ALSO USES THE PROPERTY TO PROVIDE A CONFERENCE CENTER.
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: irs-filings-530242962. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Clarke County's assessment record for that parcel carries a transfer from a grantor named “PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FDN INC” at $5,750,000, citing instrument Deed Book 687 page 634, with a Sale Date field reading 08/25/2021. The same record carries an earlier acquisition instrument, D-124-616, at a sale price of $0.
See the source and its limits
Clarke County's assessment record for that parcel carries a transfer from a grantor named “PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FDN INC” at $5,750,000, citing instrument Deed Book 687 page 634, with a Sale Date field reading 08/25/2021. The same record carries an earlier acquisition instrument, D-124-616, at a sale price of $0.
What the source supports
That the county's assessment system records a transfer of the Carter Hall parcel away from a grantor bearing the organization's name, and cites the instrument by book and page.
Uncertainty
This is the county's index of a recorded instrument, not the instrument. No deed was read. The page labels its column “Sale Date” and defines it nowhere, so whether the figure records execution, recording or the assessor's transfer date is not established, and it must not be read as a date of occupancy: a title record is not an occupancy record. The county identifies its grantor by name only — no county record read carries an EIN — so the link to EIN 53-0242962 rests on name correspondence together with the organization's own return naming the same property. The grantor and date of the $0 instrument did not render in the retrieved page, and a $0 price in an assessment system does not by itself establish a gift.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The county assessment record's Sales History row for the 2021 transfer.
Clarke County, Virginia assessment (CAMA) property record, account 5981 — Carter Hall
Clarke County, Virginia (assessment system operated by Concise Systems) · 2026-09-05 (publication)
Locator: Legal description and Sales History table: Grantor, Sale Price, Instrument, Number of Tracts, Sale Date
Relevant passageLegal Desc 1: CARTER HALL ON RT 255. Sales History: PEOPLE TO PEOPLE HEALTH FDN INC | $5,750,000 | DEED BOOK-687-634 | 1 | 08/25/2021
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
Evidence role: complicates. The second Sales History row, at $0, whose grantor and date did not render. Recorded because it is the only trace of an acquisition in these records and it dates nothing.
Clarke County, Virginia assessment (CAMA) property record, account 5981 — Carter Hall
Clarke County, Virginia (assessment system operated by Concise Systems) · 2026-09-05 (publication)
Locator: Sales History table, second row: Grantor and Sale Date did not render in the retrieved page
Relevant passage$0 | D-124-616 | 1
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: clarke-county-property-systems. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
Project HOPE's own history page states that the organization was incorporated on December 29, 1958, names Dr. William B. Walsh as its founder, and gives its tax identification number as 53-0242962.
See the source and its limits
Project HOPE's own history page states that the organization was incorporated on December 29, 1958, names Dr. William B. Walsh as its founder, and gives its tax identification number as 53-0242962.
What the source supports
The organization's published account of its own founding, and a third statement of the identifier by the organization itself.
Uncertainty
The organization's own account, not an inspected certificate of incorporation or a state corporate record. The page names no state of incorporation. An incorporation date, the date federal tax exemption was recognized, and the opening of any particular facility are three different events and are not treated here as one: the IRS master-file record for this organization carries a ruling value of January 1999, which is a recognition-record date and not an incorporation date. The page does not mention Millwood or Carter Hall.
Source
Evidence role: supports. The organization's own history page.
Project HOPE history page (the organization's own website, read September 11, 2026)
Project HOPE - The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc. · 2026-09-11 (publication)
Locator: History page, 1958 entry and tax-identification line: founder named as Dr. William B. Walsh
Relevant passageProject HOPE is incorporated on December 29th … Tax ID #: 53-0242962
Checked: Page text reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.
Open sourceSource family: project-hope-self-description. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.
AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-11. How this project checks its sources
See a related record at the Clarke County Historical Association
Also indexed as: Project HOPE; Project HOPE Health Affairs; People to People Health Fdn Inc.
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