American Youth Hostels - Chicago Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 364253842
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Silver Spring, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2406502100
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Neighborhood Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,934,030
- Expenses
- $5,240,434
- Assets
- $14,917,009
- Liabilities
- $2,767,841
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RUSSELL HEDGE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- RUSSELL HEDGE (PRESIDENT): $494,985 total reported compensation
- AARON CHAFFEE (SECRETARY): $245,215 total reported compensation
- ANALIA CASTELO (CFO): $168,694 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
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What it reported doing in 2024
Nationwide signature programs: ayh chicago participates in national scope programs that provide opportunities for authentic cultural exchange and new experiences that can make an enduring difference in their lives and their worlds. Travel scholarship awards give 18 to 30-year old's, with qualfieid financial need, the opportunity to engage in educational travel within the USA and around the world. Say hi for peace engages hostel guests in activities that celebrate the united nations international day of peace and explore how they can contribute to a peaceful society. The great hostel give back program offers to groups of six or more people as an opportunity to receive a free night's stay at our hostels during the months of january and february for each day their members volunteer in the surrounding community.iou respect brings young people together from western and middle eastern countries including the united states, germany, france, tunisia, lebanon and egypt for two week hostel based intensive dialogue, travel and reflection. These and other signature programs promote cross-cultural exchange, mutual understanding and build world citizens.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.8%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 99.5%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.85; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.8% of revenue deployed · 99.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $495K · 5 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $671K reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.