O-I-See Youth Strategies
Legal name: O-I-See Youth Strategies Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812346734
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Hudson, WI, USA
- Phone
- (715) 441-4214
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $279,591
- Expenses
- $298,611
- Assets
- $179,874
- Liabilities
- $197,741
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jennifer Nilssen (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Jennifer Nilssen (President): $53,274 total reported compensation
- Andrew Nilssen (Director): $528 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
O-I-See Youth Strategies is dedicated to supporting youth and families through individualized, strength-based services. We provide one-to-one, relationship-centered support that honors each young person’s lived experience and unique way of navigating the world. Through trauma-informed, community-based guidance, O-I-See helps youth build self-understanding, regulation, confidence, and practical life skills that support long-term well-being.
What it reported doing in 2025
O-I-See Youth Strategies is dedicated to supporting youth and families through individualized, strength-based development services. We provide one-to-one, relationship-centered support that honors each young persons lived experience and unique way of navigating the world. Through trauma-informed, community-based guidance, O-I-See helps youth build self-understanding, regulation, confidence, and practical life skills that support long-term well-being. During 2025, approximately 25 youth received one-to-one mentoring services. These same youth participated in weekly community-based activities, as all services delivered were tied to individualized, government-contracted service hours. The organization provided approximately 2,000 hours of direct one-to-one service across these youth. In addition, OISYS professionals collaborated with approximately 25 families, schools, and county case managers, as each youth served includes a coordinated support team. See Schedule O.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.1; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 18%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -62.1% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 7 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 76.8% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $224K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $53K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.