Project Blue Corps

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
814203652
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
Location
Compton, CA, USA
Phone
3108047622
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Community Service Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$938,797
Expenses
$851,604
Assets
$253,736
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ARIEL GRANAT START 1124 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MARC MAYE (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • ARIEL GRANAT START 1124 (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $137,424 total reported compensation
  • MARC MAYE (CEO): $128,862 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To build trusting relationships between community members and the officers who serve them by supporting officer led holistic youth outreach programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Lead, create, mentor, support, uplift, and offer hope and opportunity to kids and community members through their integral involvement in program delivery. Project blue and its programs develop crisp goals, measure progress toward those goals, and continuously improve in response to lessons learned. By this relentless focus on outcomes, project blue develops cutting edge best practices for police officers and youth programs to transform kids' lives. Project blue programs set academic standards and provide the tools for kids to reach them, build kids' resilience and measure the results as we go. We promote healthy bodies and minds and we get parents involved in supporting kids' healthy attitudes and behaviors. Project blue nurtures an environment that enables kids, parents, and police to work together toward kids' bright futures.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 50
  • Sustainability: 44
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 60.7%; rating input score 61
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55% of revenue deployed · 60.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $517K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.