Military Community Youth Ministries

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
742238462
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
Phone
7193811831
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,064,107
Expenses
$3,268,399
Assets
$1,195,299
Liabilities
$204,423

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

Leadership & pay

22 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • PHIL ALFREY (PRESIDENT/SECRETARY)
  • MARTY MCCARTY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • MARTY MCCARTY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $199,041 total reported compensation
  • PHIL ALFREY (PRESIDENT/SECRETARY): $197,155 total reported compensation
  • DONNA SIMMONS (TREASURER): $82,267 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of mcym/club beyond is to:"celebrate life with military teens, introduce them to the life giver, and help them become more like him."

What it reported doing in 2024

Military community youth ministries (mcym) provides the club beyond program to the teen-aged children of u.s. Military families stationed around the world. All program service expenses (which exclude management and fundraising expenses) function in direct support of providing the club beyond program to military teens at u.s. Military installations around the world. During this fiscal year, these program service expenses were used to bring mcym's club beyond program to u.s. Military installations located in a number of different countries on multiple continents. See schedule o for continuation of program service accomplishments.program service accomplishments, continued: the program is provided for american military teenagers of any race, color, creed, sex, age, disability, national origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity and is provided by responsible, trained, and screened adult mcym staff and volunteer leaders, who reach out to military teens unconditionally as caring adult role models and mentors. Club beyond is a faith-based, ecumenical program conducted in collaborative relationships with military chaplains at each location. The club beyond program provides teens with opportunities to participate in regular, safe, and well-supervised activities, such as weekly club beyond meetings, as well as periodic special events, which include but are not limited to weekend and week-long camp trips, work-service projects, and bible studies. This fiscal year, the program was available to tens of thousands of military teenagers living at or near installations with club beyond programs. Club beyond programs complement the work that military installation chaplains and commanders are engaged in to meet their responsibilities to serve and provide for their military family members. The club beyond program and its on-line and published resources align with and support a major goal of the u.s. Military: to build resiliency into service members and their families. The expanding global network of club beyond programs is creating a "safe place" for military teens that serves as a source of stability and familiarity, as these teens frequently relocate with their parents, who are regularly transferred to u.s. Military duty stations around the world.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 82
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $36.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 96%; rating input score 96; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90.5%; rating input score 90; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 84.6% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 21 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $199K · 22 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.