Access Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262190029
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2012, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026520287
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,081,192
- Expenses
- $2,202,166
- Assets
- $2,373,219
- Liabilities
- $211,884
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JODI OVCA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JODI OVCA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $252,885 total reported compensation
- CAITLIN ELLSWORTH (SENIOR DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $140,952 total reported compensation
- CHARITY JONES (SENIOR DIRECTOR OF PROGRAM): $139,269 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Access youth's mission is to empower vulnerable youth with the tools they need to stay in school, graduate on time and avoid the justice system, through mediation and restorative justice.
What it reported doing in 2025
Other program services: access youth offers additional services and programs as a complement to its core programming (all other program services). This includes our roadmap life skills programming, which delivers weekly sessions focused on building emotional intelligence and key skills students need to succeed in school and beyond. In addition, m.a.d.e. (my attitude determines everything) is ayi's highly lauded program for young female students struggling with behavior issues. M.a.d.e. Consists of weekly sessions for students focused on building a sense of sisterhood, through a trauma-informed lens, that empowers them to become leaders in their school and community. Hundreds of the students in ayi's truancy prevention and restorative justice in schools programs participate in these services each year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 69% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.19 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.8%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.2%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $253K · 11 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.