Individuals Now Inc Dba Social Advocates for Youth
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941711490
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4155041926
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $-237,022
- Expenses
- $854,090
- Assets
- $8,182,913
- Liabilities
- $1,707,307
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- MICHAEL G KASOLAS (Trustee)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Social advocates for youth were always there to serve the most vulnerable children, youth, and their families so they could realize their fullest potential to live their best lives. The organization filed a chapter 7 bankruptcy petition on february 27, 2024.
What it reported doing in 2024
Housing continuum and crisis services: the say (i.e., social advocates for youth) housing continuum provided an innovative and viable solution to solving the critical issue of youth homelessness in sonoma county (ages 12-15). Say's housing continuum supported homeless youth with wraparound services designed to empower them on the pathway to becoming healthy, responsible, and independent adults. The say housing continuum included street outreach services shelter services, case managment, and housing services. Shelter services included a basic center for runaway and homeless youth (ages 12-17, or 18 if still in high school), a shelter for transitional age youth (ages 18-24), and a winter shelter during the coldest nights). Housing services included supported housing, out of area travel expense & expense reimbursement policy, direct client assistance policy including gift cards and a food purchasing policy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 24
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 43.4%; rating input score 43
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -460.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.58; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -6.2% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 43.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 1 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $371K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.