Atlas Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300988653
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,629,899
Expenses
$2,381,464
Assets
$2,024,510
Liabilities
$143,886

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHARLENE CHIU (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • CHARLENE CHIU (CEO): $158,874 total reported compensation
  • KRYSTA ONEILL (COO): $137,038 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide workshops that strive to educate individuals to experience greater joy and freedom, and ultimately identify and manifest their life's purpose.

What it reported doing in 2025

We doubled our training offerings in both cities, providing 12 training cycles per year while maintaining 85% of prior year attendance per training; 1173 new students; 249 students completed and graduated from all 3 levels; Leadership Teams Community service projects resulted in excess of $1.1MM raised for other causes; All 4 Alumni trainings offered had 95%+ attendance rate; Entered into a lease agreement to renovate 14,085 Sq ft for a conference center in Austin TX; 80% of Graduates continue to volunteer at Atlas trainings

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 53
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 58
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 49.7%; rating input score 50
  • Program expense ratio: 76.3%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 0 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 34.4%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 30.4% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 48.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 49.7% of revenue deployed · 76.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $159K · 4 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $244K reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 9 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.