Essential resources to enhance transparency and understanding within the nonprofit sector — the data, the tools, and the math left in.
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Look up any U.S. nonprofit and pull its mission, Form 990 financials, and efficiency metrics.
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Trace how grant funding moves between organizations — grantor to grantee — as an interactive map.
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Field notes on nonprofit data, automation, and the command line.
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Search and verify nonprofit organizations using ProPublica's database.
Verify tax-exempt status and access Form 990s.
Research detailed financial records and tax returns.
Comprehensive non-profit profiles and financials.
Compare admin expenses to program spending.
Look for detailed breakdowns of spending.
Check for conflicts of interest in Form 990.
Compare to similar organizations' reporting.
Medicare/Medicaid payment information.
Independent charity evaluations.
Review Part III for program details.
Look for patterns and changes over time.
Use similar-sized nonprofits as benchmarks.
Understanding the financial health of a non-profit is crucial. These metrics can be derived from the IRS Form 990.
Analyzing these metrics over time and comparing them to benchmarks provides valuable insights.
Field notes on nonprofit data, automation, and the command line — published at blog.noprofits.org.
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Project & Operations Coordinator — AEC · Office Technology
Seattle, WA pvjohnst@gmail.com github.com/noprofits-org
Download PDFConstruction project coordinator with a research scientist's rigor and a builder's instinct for process improvement. I coordinate subcontractors, suppliers, materials procurement, scheduling, and client communication across dozens of concurrent jobs in the insurance-restoration and custom-build space — and I build the systems that make that coordination faster and more accurate. I pair advanced spreadsheet and document-automation skills with AI-assisted tooling to turn repetitive tasks into reliable systems, comfortable both running an AEC office day to day and improving the technology that runs it.
Project coordination across concurrent jobs · subcontractor & vendor coordination · materials procurement and order tracking · scheduling and milestone management · records management and document control · client communication.
Advanced spreadsheet modeling (formulas, pivots, cost & markup analysis, data validation, external data connections) · templated document generation · database creation & reporting · Google Workspace power user (Sheets, Docs, Apps Script) and equivalent MS Office workflows · Adobe Creative Cloud (20+ years).
Spotting manual bottlenecks and building systems to remove them · workflow design · document-generation automation · procurement reconciliation · AI-assisted tool development · self-directed process projects from idea to rollout.
Insurance restoration · subcontractor scoping & competitive bidding · finishing-materials selection and allowances · Xactimate estimate workflows · construction procurement and supplier relationships.
Coordinate insurance-restoration and custom-build projects end to end while continuously building the internal systems that run the office.
Developed office solutions while expanding technical expertise through self-directed learning and real-world projects.
11 peer-reviewed publications, 320+ citations in materials chemistry & photonics (2014–2017) — Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Optics Express, and others.
The systems thinking above isn't just on the job — these are live, open-source tools I build and run. Working proof, one click away.
Look up any U.S. nonprofit's mission, Form 990 financials, and efficiency metrics.
Interactive map of how grant funding moves between organizations, grantor to grantee.
Field notes on nonprofit data, automation, security, and the command line — built-time TikZ and all.
The source behind it all — a serverless CORS proxy, the apps above, and more.