Go for Yours Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814996878
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- North Hollywood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3109949374
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $55,779
- Expenses
- $58,924
- Assets
- $395
- Liabilities
- $94,484
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Erika McCall (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Erika McCall (Executive Director)
- Justin Key (Board of Directors)
- Derek Kane (Board of Directors)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Go For Yours Foundation empowers young people through the Dream Experience, a one-week leadership development fellowship that provides participants with immersive experiences, mentorship, and skill-building activities designed to expand their vision for their futures and equip them with the confidence and tools to pursue their goals. The organization operates as a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to youth leadership development and empowerment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Dream Experience is Go For Yours Foundation's sole program, a one-week leadership development fellowship for young people. In 2025 the program served over 32 youth, providing participants with immersive housing, meals, mentorship, and skill-building activities designed to build leadership capacity and expand participants' vision for their futures. Program costs included lodging, travel, meals, program supplies, venue rental, and staff support dedicated to program delivery.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.3%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.6%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 239.2; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: -50.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -99.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.3% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- 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.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.