A Teens Choice Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
853606260
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Rome, GA, USA
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Community Service Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$70,093
Expenses
$7,566
Assets
$13,227

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CIARA MCKNIGHT (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • CIARA MCKNIGHT (CEO)
  • YASHINDA WRIGHT (CFO)
  • SHARINDA MCKNIGHT (SECRETARY)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To build life skills

What it reported doing in 2025

Afterschool/summer program- provide life skills groups, social and mental wellness groups, tutoring, served 100 youth.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filed totals do not add up and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 62%; rating input score 62
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 89.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 42.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 50.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 62% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 4 of 6 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.