The Isaiah Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900357717
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2009–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2169415778
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $129,444
- Expenses
- $70,866
- Assets
- $190,703
- Liabilities
- $2,261
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Dana Carpenter (Executive Dir.)
- Erick Katherine Edman (Board Members)
- Carl Brenda Czirr (Board Members)
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
The Isaiah Project (TIP) is a 501c(3) Urban Ministry in the city of Cleveland, Ohio. Our call springs forth from Isaiah 58 with raising our children while it centers on "liberating those tied down and held back by injustice (yoke), lightening the load of those heavily burdened, freeing the oppressed and shattering every type of oppression."Being in relationship with kids and families over the years, we saw the need for emotional healing. With many people carrying burdens and traumas, it be came essential to go deeper. We believe safe relationships of trust are necessary to "break these yokes and share the love of Christ.We have Thursday and Saturday worship at House of Miracles (HOM), our inner city church. In addition, we are a Griefshare site which addresses the trauma of loss. We offer several classes to our congregation and the community. We developed several of our young mothers to take over our meal ministry which provides a meal with each of our gatherings. We have also spread o
What it reported doing in 2025
The Isaiah Project is a vision for doing ministry with inner city kids, youth, and their families. Our desire is to be in a relationship with kids and hrie families and encourage them to follow Christ while empowereing them to live out his purpose for their lives.Persons benefited: Kids Church supporting 50-70 local kids in our ministry3 other local churches with 10-40 children each10-12 churches serving 50-100 children in Liberia, West AfricaYouth Church supporting 30-50 local children in our ministryOne additional local youth church side with 10-30 participantsHouse Church supporting 8-15 members
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 2
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.8%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 3
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: 45.3%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.69; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 39.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.7% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.8% of revenue deployed · 3.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 17 filing years from 2009 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.