1M Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833410807
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Muskegon, MI, United States
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,674
- Expenses
- $38,055
- Assets
- $21,848
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joseph K Vanderstelt (President)
People named in this filing
- Joseph K Vanderstelt (President)
- Jen Debrot (Board Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Your generosity is entrusted to us, and we honor that responsibility with transparency and faithfulness. We are guided by biblical values and accountable leadership, ensuring that every dollar serves Gospel impact and advances our mission with integrity. $25 Helps provide Gospel tools and resources $50 Supports local outreach and ministry moments. + Vision Our Mission Our Mission is to equip everyday believers to clearly and confidently share the Gospel of Jesus Christ in everyday life. Our Vision To see one million people come to faith in Jesus Christ.
What it reported doing in 2025
1M Project carried out its mission through three core programs focused on evangelism training and community outreach. 1M Project provided evangelism training to equip believers and support local churches in sharing the gospel. 1M Project also partnered with churches to conduct community service activities including neighborhood cleanup projects combined with prayer support for residents. In addition 1M Project hosted Pull Up for Prayer outreach events providing free food clothing and prayer to individuals and families in the community. These programs addressed both spiritual and practical needs while strengthening church and community engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.6%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 20.8%; rating input score 21
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 37.4%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -15.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 121.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 15.6% of revenue deployed · 20.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.