Inner Voice Outer Change for Youth Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
923513709
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Leominster, MA, USA
Phone
9788226501
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Music

Reported finances

Revenue
$69,484
Expenses
$68,834
Assets
$29,882
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ISIAH TUCKER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER SAFFORD-FARQUHARSON (BOARD MEMBER)
  • LAYLA ZAMBRANO (BOARD MEMBER)
  • LASHONDA BEARD (BOARD MEMBER)

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

Seeking to empower young adults, inner voice outer change for youth (ivoc) engages marginalized youth through non-traditional methods to help them better understand themselves, and express themselves.

What it reported doing in 2025

Ivoc provides therapeutic services that foster youth empowerment through the creation of music and multimedia projects. Our approach encourages marginalized youth to partner with ivoc as they lean into the therapeutic process of self-expression. These healthy alternatives often prove to be effective in engaging adolescents who struggle with traditional modes of interpersonal communication.we bring our professional music and videography equipment to schools and programs throughout central Massachusetts, eliminating barriers and providing equitable resources for some of our most vulnerable youth.in addition to esteem-building and adopting healthy coping skills, our participants develop other important life skills and vocational skills. These skills are developed by taking a collaborative project from the planning stages through to completion. These interests can often blossom into passions that translate into career paths or lifelong avocations.

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • 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.

  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.