Kids on the Rise

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341974412
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Crossville, TN, USA
Phone
9314592388
Rating
90
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement

Reported finances

Revenue
$128,469
Expenses
$128,924
Assets
$161,493
Liabilities
$1,596

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOSH STONE (President)
  • CHARLES LUSSO (Vice President)
  • PAM BURRIS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • BEN WHITSON (Treasurer)
  • JOSH STONE (President)
  • BRIDGETTE COX (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide experiences for youth that will help them further develop their intellectual, socia, everbal, and creative acapacities and to facilitate their entry into a responsible, productinve adulthood.

What it reported doing in 2024

Provided one-on-one mentors to approximately 50 youth, in cumberland county, tn, who suffer from opportunity gaps.

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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

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

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $129K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.