Ferguson Youth Initiative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460840228
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Ferguson, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3147495379
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,794
- Expenses
- $118,072
- Assets
- $594
- Liabilities
- $5,890
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
People named in this filing
- AARON HARRIS (EXECUTIVE DI)
- WINNIE THOMPSON (CHAIRMAN)
- JOHHNY LITTLE (BOARD MEMBER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to serve the youth of the ferguson community by encouraging them and engaging them as active members of the community, developing programs as needed, and further communicating and partnering with existing community youth programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other programs: next steps: next steps mentors teens (ages 15 to 19) and provides them with skills in career readiness, job discovery, financing their future, and entry into a post-secondary institution. Teens learn how to build a resume, budget their savings, receive a credential and possibly become employed. Workshop topics include stress & time management study skills goal setting resume building interviewing skills financial literacy currently, next steps partners with area employers to provide youth access to permanent jobs. Current partners include ssm health, shoe carnival, and hy-c. The ferguson community service program (fcsp) is a partnership of the ferguson youth initiative (fyi), adolescent resource center (arc), a program of queen of peace center, provident counseling, and the city of ferguson. Fcsp works cooperatively with the ferguson municipal court to provide young people opportunities to perform mentor-guided service work in lieu of incarceration or fines for misdemeanors; to receive, through its partners, any psychological, substance use, including prevention related, and/or family counseling, accompanied by referral supports as deemed appropriate; and to receive guided inclusion in positive youth-directed activities, professional and/or adult and peer mentoring through partners of fcsp. Goals: 1.to provide young people mentoring, job skill training, counseling and related supportive services as needed, along with the opportunity to make restitution for mistakes through adult supervision, counseling and mentoring as it removes punitive consequences. 2.to provide services to the city of ferguson, its residents, businesses, schools and churches that will enhance and improve our infrastructure through cooperation, respect, and shared work. 3.by doing community service work, youth learn valuable lessons in responsibility, accountability, and consequences for their actions. This program currently serves youth and young adults ages 17-20 years of age. If you, or someone you know is interested, please email fcsp at [email protected] or call 314-749-5379. E-sports: a new emerging career pathway for the youth interested in video games. We will offer leagues for madden, nba 2k and smash bros. Through e-sports programming teens will be able to work together to achieve team related goals while also building camaraderie.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 11
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 53.8%; rating input score 54
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: -25.9%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 9.92; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 64%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -20.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 53.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $64K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.