Center for Teen Flourishing Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
394752966
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Little Compton, RI, USA
Phone
4018645809
Rating
48
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$500,100
Expenses
$115,914
Assets
$384,186
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Michael Goldstein (CEO/Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Sean Geraghty (Treasurer/Director): $45,513 total reported compensation
  • Michael Goldstein (CEO/Director): $45,513 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Center for Teen Flourishing aims to turn teen languishing into flourishing-more hours on sports, arts, paid work, homework, in-person friends, and sleep; fewer hours doomscrolling. To this end, we scrutinize Conventional Wisdom and do 2 things: Suggest new empirical experiments (nerdy) and get in there ourselves to test ideas with real teens (humbly disclosing what worked and what failed).

What it reported doing in 2025

The Center for Teen Flourishing received its 501(c)(3) determination and officially launched as an R&D lab focused on teen wellbeing during the 3pm - 3am hours. CTF developed pilots in behavioral activation and part time placement for teens, and co-published a book of ADHD coaching case studies (I'll Do It Later.) CTF added Jenny Anderson (NYT, WSJ) as a part time Senior Fellow to lead communications and research storytelling and added Payton Rouhanifard to the Board of Directors.

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.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 20
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 43
  • Sustainability: 78
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 7.8%; rating input score 8
  • Program expense ratio: 33.6%; rating input score 34
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st 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: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 76.8%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.31; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 7.8% of revenue deployed · 33.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $39K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $46K · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 8/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.