The Yellow Frame Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923665902
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Fort Wayne, IN, USA
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Folk Arts
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,000
- Expenses
- $8,210
- Assets
- $7,043
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN CROWL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BRIAN CROWL (PRESIDENT)
- BRANDON ROBERTS (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
The yellow frame project is a volunteer service at various care facilities that brings people together by giving them a creative outlet. This organization takes low cost frames and uses them into as vessels to bring recognition to these creative works. The recognition of these works are intendeddd to unify people who have previously experienced a loss of purpose or other difficulties in life.
What it reported doing in 2025
The yellow frame project takes donated or low-cost frames and provides them to participating entities so various individuals can receive well-deserved public recognition for their creative outputs. This organization also establishes a designated gallery in each participating facility to showcase the artistic works of the participants.
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 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 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: 24
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 21.7%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 26.4%; rating input score 26
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 43; 43rd 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: 61.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.1% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 21.7% of revenue deployed · 26.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 22/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.