Young Peoples Alliance Education Fund

Overview

Mission

Empowering young people to shape the future.

What it reported doing in 2025

Empower young people to become engaged civic participants by educating students about policy issues affecting young people, training them to organize and advocate, and conducting student voter education, registration, and mobilization. Expanded campus chapter network from 20 to 53 campuses across 6 states, grew membership base to 1,800 young people. Organized 175+ educational activities on campuses reaching 3,000+ students through speaker events, workshops, and experiential programming on civic engagement and policy issues. Had conversations with 3,400 students about civic participation and the issues facing their generation. Trained chapter leaders and executive board members through weekly coaching, state director support in three states, and monthly national leadership calls. Conducted nonpartisan voter education in state-level elections, reaching 6,800 students through conversations, 6,135 households through door-knocking, and 2,405 students through educational events.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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.

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
883062059
IRS 990 coverage
2024–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Headquarters
Raleigh, NC, USA
Phone
8282919166
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Voter Education, Registration

Official website

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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 68
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.4%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 91.6%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: $64.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 44.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.4; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.8%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 46.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 86.9% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.4% of revenue deployed · 91.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $375K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 annual filings from 2024 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Ava Smithing (Advocacy Director): $75,400 total reported compensation
  • Alexandre Dray (Director of Field Operations): $57,250 total reported compensation
  • Samuel Hiner (Executive Director): $57,153 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2025.