Career Concepts for Youth

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
860744103
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$121,577
Expenses
$101,302
Assets
$82,006

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mario A Bayne (Founder & President)

People named in this filing

  • Mario A Bayne (Founder & President)
  • Dr Cathleen Hernandez (Grant Writer)
  • Chris Mallary (Advisor)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Career Concepts for Youth Inc. is a 501 c 3 organization that teaches in public school; middle schools. We teach our children positive messages that allow them to increase their grades and keep the primary goal of high school graduation in focus. Our students are low income children with many primary challenges at home. We let them know that it is up to them to challenge themselves with the academic tools we teach to stay in school and achieve. To date we have served tens of thousands of students that are empowered to advance themselves no matter what they face today.

What it reported doing in 2025

Thanksgiving Dinner for underprivileged students and their families that are in the Stay and Achieve CCY program

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 1
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 48
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 1.2%; rating input score 1
  • Program expense ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 1

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 47.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 26.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 1.2% of revenue deployed · 1.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 1/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.