Northern Youth Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474024191
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Espanola, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5052216594
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,128
- Expenses
- $124,084
- Assets
- $89,272
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PATRICK JARAMILLO (PRESIDENT)
- MATIAS CORONADO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARY STEMPIEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- PATRICK JARAMILLO (PRESIDENT)
- MATIAS CORONADO (VICE PRESIDENT)
- PATTY SHURE (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Northern youth project (nyp) was founded by teens in 2009 as a platform to develop skills that foster health, academic performance, and personal investment in their communities and the environment, for a brighter tomorrow today.the initiative works to support the outcomes and opportunities for rural northern New Mexico youth through hands-on art, agriculture, community service, and leadership projects that honor the past and look to the future.northern youth project serves young people ages 12 to 21, providing free programs and activities year round. The project works to empower teens in putting ideas into action: initiating projects they want to do, focusing on their interests, and engaging in activities driven by their passions.
What it reported doing in 2025
On a 1 acre garden along the acequia, beneath the pueblo de abiquiu, from 2009-2024, nyp provided the remedy to a lack of meaningful recreational + job opportunities for youth in rural rio arriba county. Programs created by teens, for teens, meant our young people leading the way through art, agriculture, community service, and leadership projects, centered on their unique goals + interests. Multiple generations of local youth have gone on to contribute back to their communities + the land through their labor of love during their time in our programs. We continue to offer free programs + paid internships to local teens, with newly planted roots in the heart of santa cruz. Starting in 2025, nyp was graciously invited to establish a new programming site on the historic mccurdy ministries campus. With room for a garden & an in-door teen leadership space to host our paid teen and young adult internships and free youth programming, we are proud to be a partner on the family resource campus.
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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 74.2%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 89.7%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.5% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 74.2% of revenue deployed · 89.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $111K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.