Redemption Youth Ranch
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464323043
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Grass Valley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5307976621
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $124,925
- Expenses
- $106,418
- Assets
- $109,591
- Liabilities
- $126
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHAD YOUNG (President)
People named in this filing
- RON POWERS (Director)
- CHAD YOUNG (President)
- LAWRENCE MESSER (Director)
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
Redemption Youth Ranch exists to provide a safe and positive environment for hurting and disadvantaged children and families to feel the love of Jesus Christ and enjoy the experience of life on a ranch. Our goal is to provide every child a mentor and an outdoor activity (working with/riding a horse, photography, playing games, archery, fishing, etc.) that will encourage the youth to grow and heal.
What it reported doing in 2025
- Trauma-Informed Mentorship: Provided consistent, trauma-informed mentorship to children and families attending the ranch.- Youth Services: Completed 355 sessions for 22 children and 16 guardians, maintaining ongoing support for these youth, parents and families.- Family Fellowship: Hosted ranch families for fellowship events to cultivate and deepen relationships.- Leadership and Development: Provided leadership training and horsemanship development for 13 volunteer staff members.- 11th Annual Hoedown Fundraiser: Hosted our annual fundraiser to build awareness and provide encouragement to our supporters, ranch families, and the local community.- Community Engagement: Organized volunteer work days to develop local partnerships and increase community involvement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.5%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 32.3%; rating input score 32
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.8%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.5% of revenue deployed · 32.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 28/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.