Know Thyself Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271255826
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2019
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2019, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Milwaukee, WI, USA
- Phone
- 4142711451
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,682
- Expenses
- $26,995
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sally M Lyne (President)
People named in this filing
- Catina Harwell-Young (Executive Dir.)
- Stephanie Klurfeld (Chair Emeritus)
- Brian Wilson (Treasurer)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Know Thyself helps young people develop the confidence, creativity, and communication skills necessary for success now and in the future.
What it reported doing in 2019
Know Thyself provides urban students with critical life skills skills such as self-awareness, conflict resolution, empathy, goal setting and decision making thereby enabling them to be positive contributors in their community. Know Thyself uses a back to basics approach to help students identify their strengths, manage their behaviors, and make decisions that lead to positive outcomes. Participating students receive approximately 30 hours of training and activities are tailored so that they are age appropriate. Our curriculum supports several Wisconsin and National School Common Core Standards aligning our work with District and State learning expectations. Role-playing, group discussions, reflection, and journaling are the tools we use to guide our students. Last academic year, Know Thyself partnered with 9 schools and community organizations impacting 250 students in grades 5th-8th. All of these partners work in/with communities where the majority of residents qualify for free and reduced lunch, are members of ethnic minority groups and perform below academic expectations in core subjects.A critical part of our work involves providing experiential learning opportunities for our students. This not only broadens their world view, it provides real life situations to practice the skills they are learning in class.
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
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -633.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 53.7%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -27.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -41% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -38.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K 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: 5 filing years from 2015 to 2019
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.