Promise Hill Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 830956593
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2019–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location: Columbus, OH, USA
Phone: 6142716925
Rating: 63
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue: $62,131
Expenses: $79,912
Assets: $134,305
Liabilities: $20,388

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

LISA ARBOGAST (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

LISA ARBOGAST (Executive Director)
BROOKE ARTESI (Secretary)
PAUL DE LARA (Treasurer)

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

Provide basic necessities to impoverished communities

What it reported doing in 2025

Promise Hill Project provides basic needs such as food, water and hygiene products to children and adults in need.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model: Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% of its reported program spending out as grants.

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: 32
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 35
Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 35.5%; rating input score 35
Program expense ratio: 27.3%; rating input score 27

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: -28.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.68; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 14% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 35.5% of revenue deployed · 27.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $22K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
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 35/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 27/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.