Air Support Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993669147
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 3127220107
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Pollution Abatement and Control Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $114
- Expenses
- $97,631
- Assets
- $552,483
- Liabilities
- $650,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH MASIH (Executive Dir.): $17,500 total reported compensation
- MELISSA SMALLWOOD (Director): $7,000 total reported compensation
- AAMER ARBOLEDA (Director): $6,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to improve indoor air quality in congregate settings by delivering high-cadr, ultra-low-noise air filtration systems tailored to even the most constrained budgets.
What it reported doing in 2024
Air support project's mission is to improve indoor air quality in congregate settings by delivering high-cadr, ultra-low-noise air filtration systems tailored to even the most constrained budgets.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 17
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 47.7%; rating input score 48
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -85,541.2%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.66; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.18; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 47.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $18K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.