Freedom for Youth Ministries
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030530851
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Des Moines, IA, USA
- Phone
- 5152824822
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,456,455
- Expenses
- $1,741,891
- Assets
- $4,461,926
- Liabilities
- $79,166
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MEERS TREVOR (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PATTERSON BRIAN (EXCUTIVE DIRECTOR): $105,906 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Freedom for youth offers the love of jesus christ to at-risk inner city youth and homeless young adults which empowers them to break bondages in their lives, discover their god given purpose and lead a life filled with faith, hope & love. Activities include after-school programs and work training.
What it reported doing in 2024
Freedom blend coffee employment training program - freedom for youth ministries launched an employment training program through a company called freedom blend coffee. Young people from our inner-city who have dropped out of school or graduated and have had trouble holding a job, are encouraged to participate in this program. Program participants will learn and develop soft skills, such as punctuality, respecting authority, communicating with co-workers and customers, in an environment that offers grace and encouragement. Over a one-year training period, participants will earn a competitive wage and gain the confidence to be successful in a full-time position. Our organization will work with outside employers to match them with graduates of our program. Our long-term goal is to break the generational poverty cycle in many families by preparing young people for long-term sustainable employment.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45.3%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 60.4%; rating input score 60
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 24; 24th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.1%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45.3% of revenue deployed · 60.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $106K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.