Jeremiahs Promise

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
753079265
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Redwood City, CA, USA
Phone
6507396038
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Camps

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$109,894
Expenses
$107,837
Assets
$74,970

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kim Golter (Exec Dir, CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Kim Golter (Exec Dir, CEO)
  • Brian Golter (Director)
  • John Mitchell (Secretary, Dir)

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

Jeremiahs Promise provides broad-based assistance to youth who are aging out of the foster care system or who are soon to age out of care and who would otherwise face poverty and hopelessness without supportive mentoring, life skills development, academic support and career guidance.

What it reported doing in 2025

DeeperEngaged Social Impact: The DeeperEngaged site gives nonprofits and teen programs with similar missions the same advantage weve had, particularly the kind of relational data that allows greater insight and knowledge into what works for an individual or a group of teens, what isnt working, and at what level of engagement foster youth are achieving. Nonprofit leaders and staff are capable of working together to solve critical, real-time issues through the DeeperEngaged Social Impact site. The site offers daily, specialized guidance that is relationally-driven, behavior oriented and unique to each situation. Teens and young adults doing navitents (navigational content) are provided the means to reach out to their peers who are going through similar circumstances to encourage and inspire each other on the behavioral training-social media platform that we use. Likewise, other program leaders are encouraged to work together on the site to gain real-time insight to teen challenges and offer solutions that are tailored to their specific needs, helping teens understand and apply positive behaviors to key parameters of their young lives. We guide nonprofit leaders to work more substantively with their own youth, and we learn from these leaders, as well. We demonstrate deeper, more meaningful engagement between leadership and the youth they serve. The goal is to help all our vulnerable teens and young adults more confidently solve important life issues, including how to move forward after traumatizing events. Together our aim is to help teens and young adults set goals and show them how to reach their goals, holding them accountable yet quickly responding to situations where they seem stuck. We can now collaborate with our own peers at a moments notice to show our young clients how to get unstuck and keep them moving forward. Ultimately, we become a catalyst to inspire hope in our clients and turn their dreams into a workable life, academic and career plan. Mostly, we help them determine their unique, core values, that they each have an important contribution to make, what their lives may accomplish and the possibilities before them no matter what theyve had to endure up to this point. This is what our Next Step program offers presently for Jeremiahs Promise users and what is available for other nonprofits to access as we work together on the DeeperEngaged Social Impact part of the platform to find better solutions to address the growing, complex needs of our foster teen and young adult clients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 78.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79.4% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $87K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.