The Idea Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471195256
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Maple Valley, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4259415590
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $80,203
- Expenses
- $71,376
- Assets
- $35,773
- Liabilities
- $1,143
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALLISON BUREAU (PRESIDENT/EX)
People named in this filing
- ALLISON BUREAU (PRESIDENT/EX)
- JOE BUREAU (VICE PRESIDE)
- CORI PONTE (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To create understanding and empathy by educating students about differences and different abilities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Over the years, the organization has run the program - interactive disability education awareness (idea) - twenty-five times in nineteen different schools across seven different school districts. As a result, the program has impacted over 16,200 students who have directly participated in the program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 72% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.9%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 46%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.3% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 40.9% of revenue deployed · 46% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.