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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by PREVENTIONFIRST INC.

Totals

Total revenue
$2,857,501
Total expenses
$2,828,941
Contributions and grants received
$2,745,851
Grants paid
$4,498
Program service revenue
$106,533
Investment income
$17,819
Other revenue
-$12,702
Total assets, end of year
$1,346,730
Total liabilities, end of year
$463,432
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$883,298
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,670,421
Management and general expenses
$109,352
Fundraising expenses
$49,168
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,670,421

Program services were 94.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $30,872

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $2,668,311

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $46,668

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Fees for Service

    total $106,533 · related or exempt $106,533

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $17,819 · excluded $17,819

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $1,350

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $30,872

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $14,052

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total -$12,702 · excluded -$12,702

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $4,498 · program services $4,498

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $113,145 · program services $33,768 · management and general $54,051 · fundraising $25,326

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $554,614 · program services $531,038 · management and general $14,079 · fundraising $9,497

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $15,662 · program services $14,450 · management and general $718 · fundraising $494

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $29,291 · program services $25,945 · management and general $1,868 · fundraising $1,478

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $49,492 · program services $43,838 · management and general $3,156 · fundraising $2,498

  • 11b · Fees: legal

    total $103 · program services $99 · management and general $4

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $29,512 · program services $28,394 · management and general $1,042 · fundraising $76

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $1,543,622 · program services $1,512,817 · management and general $26,781 · fundraising $4,024

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $81,080 · program services $79,497 · management and general $883 · fundraising $700

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $11,221 · program services $10,796 · management and general $396 · fundraising $29

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $90,717 · program services $80,353 · management and general $5,785 · fundraising $4,579

  • 17 · Travel

    total $80,741 · program services $80,741

  • 24a · Other expenses: Program Printing

    total $94,136 · program services $94,136

  • 24b · Other expenses: Training and membership

    total $93,268 · program services $92,456 · management and general $453 · fundraising $359

  • 24c · Other expenses: Student drug use survey

    total $36,000 · program services $36,000

  • 24d · Other expenses: Miscellaneous

    total $1,839 · program services $1,595 · management and general $136 · fundraising $108

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $339,796 · end of year $220,987

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $429,380 · end of year $359,734

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $431,795 · end of year $613,543

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $4,220 · end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $5,342 · end of year $5,932

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $164,054 · end of year $146,534

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $348,581 · end of year $165,375

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $0 · end of year $144,188

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $171,539 · end of year $153,869

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $810,931 · end of year $861,605

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $43,536 · end of year $21,693

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Mission: PreventionFIRST! implements best practice strategies to reduce the risk of behavioral health disorders. Vision: All communities apply prevention strategies in every stage of life.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Implements best practice strategies to reduce the risk of behavioral health disorders.

  • Workforce Development focuses on an expanded infrastructure of coaching and mentoring. It is designed to increase workforce capacity which will lead to an increased use of evidence based practice and ensure that populations have equitable access to culturally competent prevention services.

    Expenses $1,982,250 · Revenue $57,034

  • Center for Prevention Action - The purpose of this program is to provide a comprehensive approach to substance abuse prevention requiring coordination of all programs, best practices, and policies across multiple community sectors related to the identified local conditions that are targeted for change. Activities include logic models for each identified substance use/misuse problem; environmental strategies that provide information, education and support as well as modify access, consequences, physical design, and policy; and evaluating the effectiveness of Action Team strategies.

    Expenses $329,859 · Revenue $28,437

  • Center for Community Engagement- The purpose of this program is to build and strengthen the capacity of local neighborhoods to engage in prevention. This is done primarily through training, technical assistance and mini-grants. Activities included assessing and monitoring the level of development among member coalitions across the region, building awareness, readiness and capacity of community constituents to participate in a local neighborhood anti-drug coalition, identifying and pursuing opportunities to address the identified gaps in development among member coalitions, leveraging state and national resources for use on the regional level and through the local member coalitions, and evaluating the effectiveness of local member coalitions to impact community change.

    Expenses $241,804 · Grants $4,498 · Revenue $21,062

  • Center for Prevention Science - The purpose of this program is to increase data driven decision making for effective prevention programs. Activities included review of comprehensive assessments of youth substance use/misuse in the region, monitoring biennial PreventionFIRST! Student Survey process and findings, review of evaluation on the effectiveness of PreventionFIRST! to bring about community level change related to the identified youth substance use/misuse problems, and identifying and supporting research and publication opportunities related to longitudinal PreventionFIRST! Student Survey data.

    Expenses $116,508

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Jessika Bass

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Bonsall

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Shawn Butler

    Member - Start 07/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Teri Compton

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Daniel Cummins

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Mark Dizard

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Lawrence G Herbst

    Member - Exit 06/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Julie Holt

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Robert Lesan III

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Kristin List

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Tiffany Mattingly

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Sara Mullins

    Member - Start 07/2024

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Pat Roberson

    Past Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Steve Saunders

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Tim Volpenhein

    Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Nathan Wander

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • Nicole Schiesler

    President/CEO

    Total calculated
    $84,422
    From this org
    $83,231
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,191
    Hours/week
    50

  • Julia Kyser

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $28,725
    From this org
    $28,725
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
9 February 2026
IRS schema version
2024v5.5
Source object
202610449349302306

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