Project Noelle
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823901480
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Sandusky, OH, USA
- Phone
- 4192712107
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $120,126
- Expenses
- $118,222
- Assets
- $77,493
- Liabilities
- $1,103
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NATE KEHLMEIER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KELI CLARK (EXECUTIVE DI)
- NATE KEHLMEIER (PRESIDENT)
- JULIE RUETZ (SECRETARY)
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
Project noelle is a non-profit organization committed to helping provide assistance to the youngest victims of the opiate epidemic, innocent children. Overdose deaths remain a leading cause of injury-related death in the united states. The majority of overdose deaths involve opioids. If current trends continue, the number of children affected nationwide by opioid use will rise to an estimated 4.3 million by 2030. Throughout the year project noelle volunteers organize many unique community events to help alleviate some of the financial hardships caretakers endure by providing items such as: emergency clothing and diapers, easter baskets and christmas gifts, just to name a few.
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosting kids support groups and public speaking events educating the public on the effects of the opioid epidemic.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 37
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.5%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 38.1%; rating input score 38
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: 1.6%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.5% of revenue deployed · 38.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.