Forging Youth Resilience
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 272552989
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Denver, CO, United States
- Phone
- 6572057267
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Delinquency Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $245,302
- Expenses
- $187,060
- Assets
- $221,010
- Liabilities
- $4,237
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DUNCAN SEAWELL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DUNCAN SEAWELL (PRESIDENT)
- ALIDA SHOLL (VICE PRESIDE)
- KENNETH HO (TREASURER)
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
All FYR athletes, coaches, and volunteers strive to live by our GRIT values. We use them to guide our actions and create the positive environment we envision. Our Mission FYR empowers young people to build physical and mental strength for life by providing access to a network of community-based fitness programs, nutrition education, and mentorship. Our Values All FYR athletes, coaches, and volunteers strive to live by our GRIT values. Our Mission.
What it reported doing in 2025
Forging youth resilience (fyr) is a member-based non-profit organization that partners with gyms nationwide to bring fitness, nutrition, and mentorship to youth who otherwise would not have access to these services. Fyr uses fitness to teach imperative life skills like perseverance, grit, determination, resilience, and confidence through teamwork, leadership, and goal setting to prepare youth athletes to face the challenges life throws their way with grace, maturity, and strength. Fyr also operates a week- long summer leadership camp.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.7%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 67.5%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.7%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -22.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 51.7% of revenue deployed · 67.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $126K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 31/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.