4Youandme

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830884908
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Great Neck, NY, USA
Phone
9147135614
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Engineering and Technology

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,307,053
Expenses
$1,045,491
Assets
$1,313,210
Liabilities
$20,871

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stephen Friend (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Stephen Friend (President): $111,239 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

4YouandMe is a nonprofit biomedical research organization created to change how individuals could improve their lives with chronic diseases. We were founded to tackle the fundamental unknowns using smart phones and wearables to enable individual forecasting of symptom transitions and how to effectively return it to individuals wishing to navigate with health and disease where all data, findings, algorithms, and apps as possible will be put in the pubic domain.

What it reported doing in 2024

RESEARCH: 4YouandMe research focuses on designing, doing the prerequisite development of clinical studies, submissions of protocols and consents to enable feasibility studies to be performed on how smartphones and other smart-devices such as smart-rings and smart-watches can be used to collate the data that can allow us and our contracted partners to build tools to allow individuals to better make lifestyle choices about their chronic conditions. We have developed relations with academic partners such as the Icahn School of Medicine, Oxford University, and Vector Institute, and startups such as Evidation to help carry out this work with understanding that we will place all the data, findings, algorithms, and apps in the public domain. Our mission is to see that our work will benefit both the larger scientific community and will be available to nourish communities of the public by giving freely available tools and findings to help humanity. The apps are not poised to be placed on GitHub and the data and the findings are now poised to be hosted on the Synapse Platform built by Sage Bionetworks (nonprofit). Details on 4YouandMe research activities can be found in publications and presentations available at https://www.4YouandMe

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 86% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 62
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 54
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 52.6%; rating input score 53
  • Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 54.7%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.26; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 17.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.3% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 52.6% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $111K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.