Nebraska Youth Justice Initiative Dba Radius

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851969858
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Omaha, NE, USA
Phone
5318950055
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,232,109
Expenses
$5,829,044
Assets
$26,689,206
Liabilities
$733,152

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

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KERRI SANCHEZ (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • NICK JULIANO (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • NICK JULIANO (PRESIDENT): $170,736 total reported compensation
  • ALICE K LEWIS (CHIEF FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATION OFFICER): $136,609 total reported compensation
  • TIMOTHY HRON (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $136,064 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To empower youth and families to reach their full potential through community engagement, trauma-informed education, social and behavioral health services.

What it reported doing in 2025

In-home services begin on day one of a youth's admission. Throughout the youth's stay, families and others in a support role maintain relationships with youth through frequent communication and visits both at the facility and in the community. Specially trained in-home services staff work closely with families to create a transition plan, ensuring family readiness and support structures are in place for a youth's successful transition home. Radius staff continue to provide direct assistance to families during and after their residential stay.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.8%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 67.8%; rating input score 68
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.41 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -11.4%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.58; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 52.9% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -22.6% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.8% of revenue deployed · 67.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 12 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.