Nobody Plans on Dying
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922170110
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Lakeside, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8589012334
- Rating
- 35
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Secondary, High School
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,794
- Expenses
- $8,324
- Assets
- $3,286
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Klea Ndoci (Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder)
- Sage Robinson (President & Chief Operating Officer / Co-Founder)
- Dawn Burgin (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Klea Ndoci (Chief Executive Officer / Co-Founder)
- Leila Head (Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer / Co-Founder)
- Sage Robinson (President & Chief Operating Officer / Co-Founder)
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
Nobody Plans On Dying's primary exempt purpose is to educate youth, families, and the public on overdose awareness and substance use prevention through charitable and educational programs. The organization empowers individuals to make healthy, informed decisions by providing evidence-informed prevention education, mentorship, early intervention, community outreach, and referral to behavioral health, treatment, and recovery support services when appropriate. NPOD promotes healthy, drug-free lifestyles, strengthens protective factors, reduces stigma surrounding substance use disorders and recovery, and increases awareness of the risks associated with fentanyl and other substances. Through school-based education, community engagement, and collaborative partnerships, the organization works to prevent substance misuse and overdose while improving the health, safety, and well-being of the communities it serves.
What it reported doing in 2025
Nobody Plans On Dying advanced its charitable and educational mission by providing overdose awareness and youth substance use prevention education through community outreach, public awareness initiatives, and school engagement. During the year, the organization produced and released an educational documentary focused on the fentanyl epidemic, reaching approximately 3,770 community members through screenings, online distribution, and outreach efforts. NPOD developed evidence-informed prevention curriculum, educational materials, volunteer training, and organizational policies to support school-based programming and mentorship. The organization established partnerships with schools, behavioral health providers, and community organizations to strengthen prevention and referral pathways for youth and families. Volunteers also participated in outreach events to increase awareness of overdose prevention, promote healthy, drug-free lifestyles, and connect individuals with appropriate prevention, treatment, recovery, and support resources. These activities furthered the organization's exempt purpose of educating youth and the public to prevent substance misuse and overdose.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.