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PREVENTIONFIRST INC

EIN 31-1474841 NORWOOD, OH

Revenue 2024
$2,857,501
Expenses 2024
$2,828,941

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

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
F20
Classification
1000
Street
2100 SHERMAN AVE STE 102

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

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.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,857,501
    Expenses
    $2,828,941
    Contributions
    $2,745,851
    Grants paid
    $4,498
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,995,400
    Expenses
    $2,968,761
    Contributions
    $2,919,790
    Grants paid
    $17,478
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,727,878
    Expenses
    $2,643,848
    Contributions
    $2,676,802
    Grants paid
    $3,750

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,194,927
    Expenses
    $2,033,607
    Assets (EOY)
    $966,547
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,087,264
    Expenses
    $1,945,523
    Assets (EOY)
    $836,434
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,083,243
    Expenses
    $993,136
    Assets (EOY)
    $777,459
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $906,682
    Expenses
    $888,256
    Assets (EOY)
    $481,186
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $956,866
    Expenses
    $997,531
    Assets (EOY)
    $501,248
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $942,354
    Expenses
    $780,105
    Assets (EOY)
    $503,027
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $637,140
    Expenses
    $711,335
    Assets (EOY)
    $259,693
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $569,038
    Expenses
    $508,935
    Assets (EOY)
    $329,100
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $681,840
    Expenses
    $664,164
    Assets (EOY)
    $265,631
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $503,669
    Assets (EOY)
    $260,716

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.