Building Youth Around the World
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270928729
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Murray, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8018108512
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Relief
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $891,528
- Expenses
- $710,325
- Assets
- $408,097
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- KRISTY BULLOCK (BOARD MEMBER)
- JEFF BURG (BOARD MEMBER)
- IAN MCCRACKEN (EXECUTIVE DI)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The vision of the foundation is to increase the potential for success in youth, ages 0 to 19, and post high school; that lack the means and abilities to learn, grow and thrive in their younger years to help become productive and giving in the communities in which they live throughout the world. Through genuine, yet simple acts of compassion and love, building youth around the world helps change young people's lives to become leaders within their communities and countries. There are three main focuses of the foundation: 1) provision of essentials for living to underprivileged youth and education through self-improvement and motivational training 2)education through building schools, better education, scholarships, self-improvement and leadership development and training in all its facets 3) numerous healthcare related support for children and their families that include nutrition programs, food supplies, medical centers, etc.
What it reported doing in 2025
Building youth around the world continually works on its humanitarian initiatives including projects to deliver humanitarian kits, hygiene kits, dental kits, food supplies, nutritional supplies, assist in upkeep and repairs of schools, planting gardens & mini-orchards, construction and refurbishment for orphanages, medical clinics, schools, contributions for scholarship recipients for school and training; and many other humanitarian projects. Information regarding building youth around the worlds achievements and projects can be found at www.buildyouth.org.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 6
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 94.4%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.8 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.3%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 94.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $671K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 13 of 13 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.