Neshoba Youth Coalition Leadership Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883897707
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Philadelphia, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6015043980
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $49,098
- Expenses
- $19,687
- Assets
- $99,784
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Leroy Clemons (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Leroy Clemons (Executive Director)
- Jessica Griffin (Treasurer)
- Erica Moore (Board Chair)
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
The Neshoba Youth Coalition Leadership Program focused on building organizational infrastructure to support long-term youth development initiatives, including the development of a Forest Management workforce pipeline project and a statewide ACT Boot Camp initiative. The organization also began designing a summer youth mentoring program for grades K-6 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and launched a youth reading club. During 2025, the organization focused on documenting program outcomes, strengthening its ABC Model of Community Building (Attitude, Behavior, and Conditions), and preparing for statewide scaling of its youth leadership and education initiatives in 2026.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Neshoba Youth Coalition Leadership Program carried out its exempt purpose by strengthening organizational infrastructure and expanding youth development initiatives in preparation for statewide impact. During 2025, the organization advanced the development of a Forest Management workforce pipeline project and a statewide ACT Boot Camp initiative designed to improve educational and career outcomes for youth. The organization also began designing a summer youth mentoring program for grades K-6 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, launched a youth reading club, and continued providing leadership development and community engagement opportunities. Through its ABC Model of Community Building (Attitude, Behavior, and Conditions), the program focused on youth development, academic support, and community-based engagement while documenting program outcomes to support future expansion. The program served approximately 60-80 youth participants through ongoing engagement activities and pilot initiatives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 25
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.7%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 39%; rating input score 39
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.9%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.07; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 61%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -17.6% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 15.7% of revenue deployed · 39% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.