Give Something Back A NJ Nonprofit Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 811504712
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 6094369296
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,813,347
- Expenses
- $6,944,209
- Assets
- $19,528,598
- Liabilities
- $832,931
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Amy Young-Snodgrass (Executive Director & VP)
- Melissa Helmbrecht (Executive Director & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Amy Young-Snodgrass (Executive Director & VP): $352,339 total reported compensation
- Melissa Helmbrecht (Executive Director & CEO): $245,974 total reported compensation
- Chad William Carr (CFO/ Chief of Staff): $235,916 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Give something back supports students who have faced significant adversities, guiding them toward long-term success in a safe and caring community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Give Something Back supports students who have faced significant adversities, guiding them toward long-term success in a safe and caring community. We focus on young people who have experienced the child welfare system, homelessness, traumatic crimes, the incarceration of a parent, and/or other significant adversities (four or more Adverse Childhood Experiences). We provide long-term, professional coaches and courses equipping students to graduate high school, enroll in a postsecondary education (college, community college, or vocational/technical program), secure financial aid, complete their education, and get a job in their chosen profession. Coaches meet with each student twice a month, serving as a personal mentor, helping them create and update Student Action Plans, and teaching our monthly evidence-based, trauma-informed courses on building economic stability, resiliency and relational wealth. For many of Give Something Back's students, their coach is one of the only stable, consistent relationships they have with a supportive adult across the full span of these transitions. While most programs are designed to be a part of young people's lives for a few years, we commit to them for the long-haul.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.28 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -82.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.81; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 24.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 73.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $352K · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $259K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.