A Better Tomorrow for Todays Teens

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 920197783
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2018–2023
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2015
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Rating: 63
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Human Service Organizations

Reported finances

Revenue: $62,014
Expenses: $40,301
Assets: $29,062
Liabilities: $29,910

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

Frances Simmons Ellis (President)

People named in this filing

Frances Simmons Ellis (President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Youth Empowerment Training

What it reported doing in 2023

Youth Empowerment Training and Wellness Programs teaching young adults to navigate the world through job trainings as well as health programs aimed at teaching youth to take care of themselves and maintain healthy bodies and nutrition. Served over 100 youth throughout the year

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 53
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 58
Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 43.7%; rating input score 44
Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 35%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.03; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -33.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -24.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 43.7% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2023
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
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.

Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.