Fortress Youth Development Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 421588482
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8179965170
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,503,275
- Expenses
- $1,409,236
- Assets
- $1,216,741
- Liabilities
- $90,000
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stacy Martin (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Stacy Martin (Executive Director): $64,425 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
By building bridges from poverty to promise, we feel called to provide resources that bring hope to the lives of families working to end the cycle of generational poverty. Our dual-generation approach includes programs designed to ignite spiritually engage rationally and equip individuals academically.
What it reported doing in 2024
Fortress after school provides programming for students who attend a neighborhood elementary school. In the classroom there is a shared academic focus on completing homework assignments and reading. Beyond that fortress teachers support school learning with engaging and hands-on activities such as art projects science experiments and outdoor learning. Students in need of extra academic support receive small group and one-on-one instruction from our on-staff reading intervention specialist utilizing both technology and traditional teaching methods. Time is allotted each week for outdoor play and games. Students are encouraged to build strong relationships with one another and with staff and volunteers. They are also given opportunities to explore new talents and skills that may open doors for them in the future. Special events such as field trips and special interest clubs also make the program an enriching fun experience for students.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th 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: 90%; rating input score 90; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 6.3%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.86; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.9% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 45 of 45 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.