Generation Yes

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311808170
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020, Form 990-N 2010
Location
Olympia, WA, USA
Phone
3605282345
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$22,953
Expenses
$244,732
Assets
$276,417
Liabilities
$228,044

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • DENNIS HARPER PHD (BOARD MEM, C): $32,242 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Generation yes aspires to teach and empower youth to use modern technology to solve problems in their schools and communities. We will accomplish this mission by providing resources, materials, models, and collaborative opportunities -- coordinated and constructed by young people.

What it reported doing in 2020

Technology integration & student empowerment -- a 3-part program to increase the use of technology in education. (1) genyes - student- supported professional development. Genyes (generation of youth and educators succeeding) creates a student team or class that can help teachers with tech support and technology integration projects. Genyes offers a structured model with curriculum and online tools that generate evaluation results you can trust. Genyes students gain 21st century skills. Teachers school-wide receive high-quality tech support and help using technology in their own classroom. (2) techyes - student technology literacy certification. Techyes provides everything needed to run a student-centered, project-based national technology literacy certification program for grades 6-9. Techyes assists schools as they strive to meet the no child left behind (nclb) technology literacy requirement for all eighth graders and iste nets technology standards for students. (3) techyes science - technology literacy certification through science projects. Techyes science builds on the successful techyes model with a customized version created specifically to focus on stem (science, technology, engineering, and math). Students create science projects using technology that meet iste nets standards. This creates an efficient way for schools to show authentic technology literacy without adding another class to the schedule.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 59
  • Sustainability: 12
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 76.1%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: -966.2%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.82; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -14.1% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $186K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $32K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2011 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.