Generation
Legal name: Generation You Employed Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471073442
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Washington, DC, US
- Phone
- 2026294410
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,427,071
- Expenses
- $24,617,756
- Assets
- $39,235,125
- Liabilities
- $1,695,386
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MONA MOURSHED (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- JEREMY FOX (REGIONAL CEO, APAC)
Highest reported compensation
- MONA MOURSHED (PRESIDENT & CEO): $594,301 total reported compensation
- JEREMY FOX (REGIONAL CEO, APAC): $312,752 total reported compensation
- ALI JAFFER (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $306,802 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We transform education to employment systems to prepare, place, and support people into life-changing careers that would otherwise be inaccessible.
What it reported doing in 2024
Generation: you employed, inc. (gye), is a nonprofit that believes in the power of employment to change lives. They prepare, place, and support people into careers that would otherwise be inaccessible across 17 countries, and advocate for new approaches that will open up opportunities to everyone. To date, more than 140,000 people have graduated from generation: you employed, inc. Programs, together earning over $1.9 billion in wages. Generation: you employed, inc. Works with more than 21,000 employers and many implementation partners and funders. For more information, visit generation.org.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 64% for direct work, and 36% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 78
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.2%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $69.77 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Pass
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 21.7%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 18.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 17 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 61.2% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $18.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $594K · 23 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.