Outdoor Youth Exploration Academy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352062273
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3175410271
- Rating
- 58
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,419
- Expenses
- $117,227
- Assets
- $35,411
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Abraham Joseph King (President)
- Jacqueline Nash (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Abraham Joseph King (President)
- Jacqueline Nash (Vice President)
- Eric Holler (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
Outdoor Youth Exploration Academy - OYEA! is dedicated to guiding and empowering young individuals by fostering the cultivation of essential life and leadership skills while nurturing a profound understanding of environmental responsibility through engaging outdoor sporting experiences. At OYEA!, our fundamental aim is to enlighten urban youth about their pivotal roles as keepers of our environment while imparting enduring outdoor recreational expertise. We take pride in organizing community cleanups that instill a sense of communal pride and advocate for the safeguarding of our urban waterways. Moreover, our initiatives encompass comprehensive training in fishing, archery, and target shooting with air rifles, disciplines often overlooked in urban settings but which hold the potential for college scholarships and participation in prestigious Olympic sporting events.
What it reported doing in 2025
In CY2025, OYEA, Inc celebrated its 25th year of empowering lower-income, urban youth across Central Indiana. This year, the organization served more than (600) young people and their families through hands-on, outdoor education; recreation; conservation projects; and family engagement experience. Our youth learned low-cost, lifelong skills in fishing and archery, participated in a community-based clean up of the Fall Creek waterway, and joined their families and our funders for major events like the Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400, and the Indiana State Fair. A defining strength of OYEA, Inc is our adult mentoring model which provides consistent guidance, encouragement, and positive role modeling for youth facing social and economic barriers. With certified instructors, trusted community relationships, and a commitment to expanding access; OYEA, Inc continues to be a respected community asset -- helping young people build confidence, discover healthy outdoor activities, and thrive in safe, supportive environments via the programs listed (below):
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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 program spending has grown recently. 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: 41
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 45%; rating input score 45
- Program expense ratio: 35.5%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -26.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.8%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -36% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 45% of revenue deployed · 35.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 10 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.