Bay Area Youth Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 592184150
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Phone
- 8133720235
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $19,271,142
- Expenses
- $19,791,986
- Assets
- $5,819,563
- Liabilities
- $2,478,551
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT PATTERSON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT PATTERSON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER/PRESIDENT): $188,417 total reported compensation
- JENNIFER HAYNES (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $136,211 total reported compensation
- DANIELLE DICKERSON (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $132,075 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Bays provides counseling & guidance to the youth of Florida and provides services necessary to aid troubled youth & their families. Bays partners with individuals, families, and communities to inspire change, growth, & success.
What it reported doing in 2024
Clinical services - bays provides an array of clinical services at a variety of locations throughout the state. Services available include: family domestic violence groups; substance abuse prevention classes; assessments; individual, family, and group counseling. Services are based upon individual needs and are provided by credentialed professionals. Clinical services include the following programs: bays community care (bcc), bays family connections (bfc), fatherhood at the forefront (fatf), elevate beyond barriers (ebb), and supporting trusting relationships with inclusion, vision, and empathy (strive).
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% 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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $446.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 23rd 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: -2.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 94.6% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $18.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $188K · 13 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.