Peace Initiatives Institute

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841592101
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2016
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Boulder, CO, USA
Phone
8778295500
Rating
45
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Peace and Security

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$37,350
Expenses
$37,788
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • BRENDA LYLE (ADVISORY BOARD)
  • TIKKI HUEBIN (PROGRAM DIRECTOR)
  • DENNIS VIRGIL (ADVISORY BOARD)

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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Social engineering in post-conflict societies: creating educational media initiatives to help young children respect differences between selves and others. As of 2008, pii is conducting aneducational campaign in northern ireland where nearly 20,000 children, their teachers and parents benefit from the media initiatives put forth by pii. Pii is currently adapting program in columbia and the united states.

What it reported doing in 2016

Media initiative for children (columbia)media initiative for children is a highly successful, research-based curriculum implemented inall of northern ireland's pre-school classrooms. Colombia has invited us, along with ournorthern ireland partners, to adapt this program to support their pre-school curriculum tobetter represent their children's authentic voices. Colombia is committed to helping theirchildren recover from 50 years of armed conflict with innovative programs based on peacebuilding.mifc helps to generate greater inclusion and more resilient children. We do this bypositively shifting negative attitudes and behaviors that degrade the "other." we provideyoung children the skills to share respect for racial, ethnic, cultural, sectarian and physicaldifferences - as a path toward preparing our children for a more peaceful future. This programcombines 60-second tv animation and radio stories, character dolls, classroom materials and aninnovative curriculum. To impact the entire community, we train teachers and parents.

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: 21
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 20.7%; rating input score 21
  • Program expense ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 20

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -98.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -32.7% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -200% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 20.7% of revenue deployed · 20.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $8K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
  • 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 21/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 20/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.