The Sicilian Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 455186985
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-PF 2015
- Location
- Lantana, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9406134161
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,180
- Expenses
- $16,967
- Assets
- $21,632
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
People named in this filing
- Alfred M Zappala (Chairman)
- Giovanni Lanza (Pres & Treas)
- Joseph D Monticciolo (1st Vice Pres)
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 organization was founded to raise money to issue academic grants in Sicily to certified language schools and instructors in Sicily to teach students how to speak, think, and write in the English language.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, the Sicilian Project provided funding to teach and encourage Sicilian youth to speak, read, write, and think in English for primary through elementary and high school aged students.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -39.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.27; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $12K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 23 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.