Kids Above Everything

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813757873
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
7202516208
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$60,564
Expenses
$145,256
Assets
$2,697
Liabilities
$47,600

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DANE WASHINGTON (President)

People named in this filing

  • DANE WASHINGTON (President)
  • LUZ AQUINO-DAREZZI (Treasurer)
  • LUCILLE WASHINGTON (Secretary)

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

Kids Above Everything is a media arts mentorship organization. We integrate mentorship and media arts education to cultivate relationships, authentic learning, and opportunities for self expression and community engagement. We strive to educate and empower youth to use their voice for positive change in their lives and in their community.

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, kids above everything (kae) continued to provide youth development, mentorship, and media arts programming to youth and young adults ages 1026 across denver and the metro area. Kae integrated mentorship, social-emotional learning, media arts education, and workforce development to create safe, culturally responsive spaces that promoted leadership, wellness, and positive community engagement. Through programs such as big h.o.m.i.e.s. (helping our men inspire each others success), participants engaged in peer mentorship, identity development, life skills training, and community-based learning experiences. Kae facilitated youth-led media projects that encouraged self-expression, advocacy, and digital storytelling through photography, videography, podcasting, and content creation. The organization also provided mental health and wellness supports, leadership development activities, and employment opportunities through its media arts workforce initiative. Participants reported increased confidence, communication skills, emotional regulation, and connection to positive adult role models. Kae youth interns and participants completed multiple community-based creative projects and continued to build pathways toward education, employment, and long-term personal development.

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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Sustainability: 6
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 55.6%; rating input score 56

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -139.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 17.65; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 55.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $81K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.