Project 15 Corp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 863368360
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- El Paso, IL, USA
- Phone
- 5413641167
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $166,397
- Expenses
- $134,487
- Assets
- $93,998
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- TABITHA NOWARK (CO-CHAIR)
- MICHAEL MELICK (CO-CHAIR, PR)
- NIKITA RICHARDS (VICE PRESIDE)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Organization is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under the section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code. The business activity is as follows: project 15 serves as an intepretive center and museum to tell the story of david strother and the suffrage movement.
What it reported doing in 2024
The goal is to create a museum of david strother's 1870 barber shop. This is progressing and will be ready for opening in 2025. The second museum will be dedicated as an educational museum concerning voting history and voters' rights throughout history, current day and into the future. Construction is mostly completed and preparing exhibits continues, opening in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.6%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 113.5% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 65.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.6% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $109K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.