Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262477597
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2008
- Location
- Baton Rouge, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2254565752
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,395,223
- Expenses
- $3,755,850
- Assets
- $5,089,149
- Liabilities
- $142,078
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lucas Spielfogel (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Lucas Spielfogel (Executive Director): $125,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Baton Rouge Youth Coalition's (BRYC) mission is to provide the resources hard working teens need to pursue their dreams and attend post-secondary institutions. We prepare students for college through ACT Prep courses, 1:1 mentoring, college seminars and tours, and leadership development. We also serve as a one-stop shop for helping students pay application fees, file financial aid forms, complete scholarship applications, and plan for the costs of college.
What it reported doing in 2024
Core Programs - These are weekly, grade-specific initiatives that serve our 200 9th through 12th graders and focus on two major areas: college readiness and civic engagement. These took place from July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, 3:00-8:00pm, every week except for vacations (e.g. winter/spring breaks, etc.). We offered more than 1,000 hours of total programming that included ACT preparation, college essay writing workshops, one-on-one mentorship throughout the college application and financial aid processes, and coaching on the transition to college. We offered "leadership" programs which were discussion-based initiatives that focused primarily on social justice and civic engagement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.3%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 78.4%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.6%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.35; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.3% of revenue deployed · 78.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- 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.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.