Foreign Service Youth Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521651878
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Arlington, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7307312960
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $111,347
- Expenses
- $109,573
- Assets
- $117,733
- Liabilities
- $1,785
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN NALAND (DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT)
- PAUL R SUTPHIN (DIRECTOR & VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT)
- LAURA GARCIA OLSON (DIRECTOR/VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOHN NALAND (DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT)
- PAUL R SUTPHIN (DIRECTOR & VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT)
- KRYSTAL MCGUINESS (DIRECTOR & SECRETARY)
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
Inspiring foreign service youth to embrace the adventure: encouraging resilience, fostering camaraderie, celebrating achievements, and developing them as leaders. Encouraging foreign service youth, throughout their global upbringing and beyond.
What it reported doing in 2024
Contests & awards ceremony: fsyf awarded fs youth who finished top among their fellow contestants in its annual art, essay, academic, community service, kidvid, and welcome home video.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 69% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 90% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 18
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 17.7%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 16.9%; rating input score 17
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: 1.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.07; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 17.7% of revenue deployed · 16.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.