salaam. please keep the question concise and accurate. Asking "if you gave zakat money to a project that wasnt zakatable should you repay it" is an extremely loaded question. Its like a non muslim asking you "so how often do you beat your wife"? Lets make our question accurate as we dont want people having suspicions that people may want this fatwa to come out with a negative answer, as such an intention would surely earn teh anger of Allah when your trying to purposefully oppose a project that is simply trying to help the poor, no agenda, nothing to gain personally, the only people who stand to benefit are the poor. Dont make assumtpions that the project is run by "la madhabis", as I already said, the managing director tawfique choudry encourages us to learn fiqh from deobandis, when i decided to learn hanafi fiqh I was acting upon his advice. Bro taliban, word the question in a manner that is fair and matches the situation e.g. "is using your zakat money to purchase a building for wayfarers and homless and poor to use to live in a zakatable project if they dont own the building but the building is only used for this purpose"? Thats a lot more accurate. Be careful akhi as you've now also stated they are "la madhabis" which unfortunately would put people off donating to them even though the project has nothing to do with madhabs and is about providing for teh needy whether they are followers of madhabs or not and also the managing director advocates learning a madhab (I dont know about teh rest of the team as I only learnt from shaikh tawfique choudry so far). Also I will try to get a vald email address, i informed them about this. please remain patient inshAllah. Jazak Allahu Khair