Project 4112 Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922010560
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Cleveland Heights, OH, USA
Phone
8458513008
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$250,514
Expenses
$537,935
Assets
$565,830
Liabilities
$46

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ALISA OLYER (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ROBIN MILLER (EXECUTIVE DI): $89,092 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Support children's education by, among other activities, fostering, supporting, promoting, and conducting programs that train educators in montessori educational methodologies, provide professional development opportunities, training and a professional conference for educators that focus on removing racial, social, and economic barriers to high fidelity adult preparation, and help educators to blend pedagogy, community, and local partnerships with the goal of ensuring that children everywhere receive dynamic, accessible, and equitable education

What it reported doing in 2025

Train montessori - 2025 program impact in 2025, train montessori advanced its mission to expand access to high- quality montessori adolescent education through diploma training, orientation courses, and professional workshops serving participants across five continents. The 2025 diploma cohort prepared 15 adolescent educators from the united states, canada, argentina, nigeria, brazil, the united arab emirates, and japan, achieving a majority completion and certification pass rate. All graduates secured employment in montessori adolescent environments, and one graduate launched a new school that is actively enrolling students. A second 2025 cohort of 15 participants from the united states, canada, serbia, and china reflects continued national and international demand for adolescent educator preparation. In addition, ami orientation 12-18 and targeted professional workshops engaged more than 100 educators from across north america, south america, europe, africa, asia, and australia, strengthening program implementation in existing schools and supporting growth in emerging communities. Through measurable completion outcomes, full employment placement, new school development, and expanded global reach, train montessori continues to strengthen the pipeline of qualified adolescent educators and advance sustainable, mission-aligned secondary education worldwide.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 60
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 67
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -114.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -24.1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -54.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 2 of 3 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $363K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $89K · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.