Project Build Swfl
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844915331
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Naples, FL, USA
- Phone
- 2398980608
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $878,221
- Expenses
- $780,742
- Assets
- $268,943
- Liabilities
- $27,175
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Aram Wheatley (CEO/Founder)
Highest reported compensation
- Aram Wheatley (CEO/Founder): $150,000 total reported compensation
- Jennifer Fernandez (Director of Finance): $110,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Project BUILD is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering at risk youth and young adults to be responsible, productive members of their families and communities. Our mission is to make a positive impact through the efforts of a dedicated mentoring team, working in partnership with youth agencies, local communities, employer partners and families to educate participants in three key areas of modern life: Mentoring, Financial Literacy, and Workforce Development.
What it reported doing in 2025
Project BUILD SWFL provides workforce development, mentoring, and pre-apprenticeship training services for at-risk youth and young adults. The organization delivers NCCER Core construction training, OSHA 10 certification, forklift certification, life skills development, financial literacy, mentorship, case management, and hands-on career exposure in the construction trades including carpentry, electrical, HVAC, and plumbing. The program serves youth facing barriers to employment, including justice-involved individuals, youth aging out of foster care, and young adults experiencing housing instability. Participants receive industry-recognized credentials, supportive services, employment readiness training, and direct connections to employers and apprenticeship opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 81% 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 most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.2%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Missing
- Other executive compensation review process: Missing
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 33.3%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 90% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.2% of revenue deployed · 68.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $783K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.