The Plus Me Project

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501(c)(3) organization

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2519 W AVENUE 30
Los Angeles CA 90065-2148

Los Angeles CA | IRS ruling year: 2014 | EIN: 46-3506663

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Accountability & Finance

The Plus Me Project cannot currently be evaluated by our Accountability & Finance methodology due to only having one year of electronically-filed IRS Form 990 data. But please note, that the IRS is significantly delayed in processing nonprofit's annual tax filings. That may mean that this entity has electronically filed additional Forms 990 but they have yet to be processed and made public by the IRS.

To ensure year-to-year consistency the Encompass Rating System's Finance & Accountability beacon analyzes the three-year average of some data provided through the IRS 990.
Charity Navigator currently only has one year of consecutive e-filed Forms 990 from the IRS for The Plus Me Project under the EIN: 46-3506663.
Before Charity Navigator can evaluate The Plus Me Project, The Plus Me Project will need to e-file for additional fiscal years.

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Unscored Information

Total Revenue and Expenses - No Data Available

No Data Available

Revenue and expense data is not available for this organization. This data is only available if this charity has at least one year of electronically-filed Form 990 data filed within the last six years.

Salary of Key Persons - No Data Available

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IRS Published Data (Business Master File) - Data Available

Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website

Activities:

Activity data not reported from the IRS

Foundation Status:

Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)

Affiliation:

Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)

Data Sources (IRS Forms 990) - Data Available

The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (The Plus Me Project) or EIN (463506663) in the 'Search Term' field.

Pandemic Response - Data Available

This organization was impacted by COVID-19 in a way that effected their financial health in 2020. This normally would have reduced their star rating. Due to the unprecedented nature of the pandemic, we give charities such as this one the opportunity to share the story of COVID's impact on them, and doing this pauses our revision of their rating. Charities may submit their own pandemic responses through their nonprofit portal.

The Plus Me Project reported being impacted by COVID-19 in the following ways:

Program Delivery
Grants Received

How COVID-19 impacted the organization's operations financially:

Service revenue to our organization stopped for a few months when COVID-19 hit. We applied and received a PPP loan that kept our team employed.

How COVID-19 impacted the organization's delivery of programs:

Due to social distancing, we had to pivot all of our programs from in-person to a virtual environment. Our team had to adapt all of our curriculum to work through Zoom.

How this organization adapted to changing conditions caused by COVID-19:

We began offering more virtual programs to youth at our partner sites and with new schools who reached out to us throughout the pandemic.

Innovations the organization intends to continue permanently after the pandemic:

We plan to continue to offer virtual programming in the future and will get back to offering in-person programming in Los Angeles.

Impact & Results

Not Currently Scored

The Plus Me Project cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Results methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.

Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.

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Culture & Community

The Plus Me Project cannot currently be evaluated by our Culture & Community methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its Constituent Feedback or Equity Practices strategies.

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Leadership & Adaptability

The Plus Me Project has earned a 100% for the Leadership & Adaptability beacon. See the metrics below for more information.

This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.

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Metrics

Full Credit

Partial Credit

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Not Applicable

Mission - 10/10 pts

The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission

PLUS ME Project activates the art of personal storytelling to build confidence in youth as they pursue their college, career, and life goals.

Vision - 10/10 pts

The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.

Where all communities are filled with courageous voices whose stories are heard, valued, and celebrated.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goals - 20/20 pts

The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.

Goal One: Define program expansion priorities and map out growth options to determine facilitate strategic, sustainable growth in program delivery and number of students served, to increase program revenue:

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Develop organizational infrastructure to support increased capacity required for identified strategic growth

Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).

Goal Three: Increase and diversify fundraising revenue to achieve $1m operating budget within 3 years

Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).

Leadership Development - 15/15 pts

The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development

Describe an investment in leadership

Our team at PLUS ME is dedicated to investing in our team's leadership. Each of the members on our leadership team have executive coaches that support them with growing their personal leadership. We also brought our board and staff together for a year long Developing Development Program where we learned how to strengthen our culture of individual giving within our organization last year.

Mobilizing for Mission - 15/15 pts

The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

Strategic Partnerships
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness
Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

PLUS ME Project remains active on social media, offers community storytelling training to engage stakeholders, and partners with schools and organizations in the area to serve their students. We also present at conferences and our executive director has received multiple awards and recognitions over the years for his leadership.

Adaptability Story - 30/30 pts

The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.

PLUS ME Project noticed an increase in demand for our programs from current and prospective partners. As experts in personal storytelling space, many saw the value that we brought to students throughout the pandemic as we helped them process through their experience and provide an outlet for them to self-reflect. Our team was dedicated to adapting to all of the changes the COVID brought and put ourselves in a better place coming out of the pandemic than we were entering it. We increased our revenue and lowered our overhead by adapting to the needs of our community and filling a gap that existed.

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The Plus Me Project

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Accountability & Finance

Unscored Information

Impact & Results

Culture & Community

Leadership & Adaptability

Describe an investment in leadership

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

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