Project Noise Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270953250
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2012
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2012
- Location
- Studio City, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2139156622
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $99,925
- Expenses
- $81,586
- Assets
- $18,826
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2012. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create videos at no or low cost for organizations working to better the world. The organization aims to amplify the impact of nonprofits and raise awareness about critical social issues. Also, to educate the public about subjects useful to individuals and beneficial to the community, promote social welfare and social justice, and provide relief to the poor, distressed, and underprivileged.
What it reported doing in 2012
A is for: establishment of women's health and reproductive rights awareness through widely seen youtube channel video series. Launch of website, www.aisfor.org, facebook campaign with 4,000+ likes, twitter campaign with 5,000+ followers. The site has become a noted and credible resource for women's rights. This program was launched as a video project in response to serious and persistent developments in access to women's health that threatened a woman's physical autonomy and freedom. "a is for" serves the community by providing a unifying online forum which utilizes social media to keep people informed with up to the minute news, information, and events in the areas of women's rights, specifically public health and reproductive rights. The "a is for" project engages community participation and activism by giving the public a voice through the community video project. It also launched and continues to run the "a" ribbon campaign to identify a community member's support for women's rights and reproductive freedom, which helps raise awareness about the issues through direct contact. The project has manufactured and distributed over 3000 ribbons in 2012. A is for also serves as an ally and advocate for other organizations working to protect women's rights. Through live events, the project creates a safe environment for women to be vocal about their concerns over access to women's health care. They can be heard in ways that impact the community through education, celebrity participation, viral videos, and the website, which has been lauded as the best place to get women's rights news by the media watchdog group fair.
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 95% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 57.2%; rating input score 57
- Program expense ratio: 70%; rating input score 70
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.4%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.9% per year; rating input score 0; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 57.2% of revenue deployed · 70% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $6K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2012
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 57/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is recorded as not currently operating in California.