Poem
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 202335962
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2011
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2011, Form 990-N 2007
- Location
- Columbus, OH, US
- Phone
- (614) 315-8989
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,207
- Expenses
- $21,208
- Assets
- $21,517
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2011. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
POEM offers peer support, resources, referrals, a sense of community, education, and advocacy opportunities to help moms in Ohio feel heard, understood, and empowered.
What it reported doing in 2011
Education: developed multiple presentations for several areas of health care professionals and consumers and presented information to multiple agencies, organizations and practices. Educational topics were presented at every support group meeting - approximately 24 educational topics for mothers. Each topic was fully researched. Evidence based self care or cognitive intervention methods were covered. Poem continued its peer support program by both providing education to coordinators throughout the state and updated educational materials and curriculum for the mentor support program. Poem worked with area postpartum depression task forces serving as a consultant for one and co-chair for another. Poem completed 21 educational conference presentations to various health care agencies, practices, organizations or institutions and participated and/or led approximately 35 other educational or awareness forums or meetings. Poem maintained a lending library of books, journal articles, multi-media presentations and other materials for both consumers and health care professionals. Poem provided direct individual educational support, consultation and/or referral guidance to approximately 187 health care providers or other entities working with mothers/families in 2011. Poem distributed approximately 26 educational e-newsletters to consumers interested and/or utilizing support services from poem.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 27.4%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 30.3% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 45.7% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $14K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2010 to 2011
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.