Able Youth Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 571158431
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Franklin, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154804331
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $199,120
- Expenses
- $182,868
- Assets
- $249,884
- Liabilities
- $7,817
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Bryan Bell (President)
People named in this filing
- Amy Saffell (Executive Dir.)
- Rick Slaughter (Director)
- Bryan Bell (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Create independent youths who are defying the odds
What it reported doing in 2025
Services for disabled children-teach independent living skills through Independent Camp, sports activities, and Super Sports Saturday. Sports Activities and Super Sports Saturday include Wheelchair Tennis, Basketball and Track and Field. For year ended 12/31/25, ABLE worked with 65 kids in their program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.3%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.37; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.3% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $144K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.