Preserving the Message
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874689169
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Caldwell, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 3472566500
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Historical Societies, Related Historical Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,711
- Expenses
- $1,140
- Assets
- $7,754
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
People named in this filing
- Christopher K Budnick (Chairperson & Director)
- Lynne Vittorio (Secretary & Director)
- Paul Wesnofske (Treasurer & Director)
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
The purpose of Preserving the Message is to gather information and store it and make it available to the general public regarding the history of Narcotics Anonymous.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Preserving the Message not for profit group continued to fulfill its primary purpose of digitalizing archives of Narcotics Anonymous' history, putting on presentations of our mission, and assisting other like organizations in creating their own history publications and archives. In 2025, we published 2 new historical videos on YouTube, 9 blog posts, digitized a member's archives, and convened 10 committee meetings for sharing information and resources related to NA history.
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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 38
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15%; rating input score 15
- Program expense ratio: 74.9%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 80%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.8; rating input score 88; 88th 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: -74.3% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 106.1% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15% of revenue deployed · 74.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $854 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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 15/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.