Seattle Young People's Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 911536006
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2012–2013
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2013
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Phone: 2068609606
Rating: 79
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue: $95,048
Expenses: $117,325
Assets: $15,912
Liabilities: $109

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

MULKI MOHAMED (CO-PRESIDENT)
ACACIA SALISBURY (CO-PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

ANELISE SCHRUDER (CO-DIRECTOR)
YECELICA J VALDIVIA (CO-DIRECTOR)
MULKI MOHAMED (CO-PRESIDENT)

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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The seattle young people's project is a youth-led, adult supported social justice organization that empowers youth (ages 13-18) to express themselves and to take action on the issues that affect their lives.

What it reported doing in 2013

Youth leadership: - youth organizing institute (yo): an 8 day social justice institute about youth organizing and social change. Members learn about social justice issues and build analysis, meet other youth, learn about the history of community organizing and learn tools to organize for change. - training for trainers (t4t): t4t is a 2 1/2 day workshop for youth that will prepare them with skills in workshop facilitation, understanding popular education, and breaking down topics like oppression, racism, homophobia, etc. After completing t4t they will become youth trainers with sypp or they can take their skills to other places in the community. - project liberation (project lib): youth led political education trainings. Pl members lead workshops at sypp and in the larger community about racism, homophobia, youth organizing and other topics. Youth who are interested and passionate about a topic will get support in turning that into a workshop or building a curriculum campaigns: - education justice campaign (ejc): youth-led initiative to organize against the school-to-prison pipeline by fighting for education justice and for liberatory discipline policies. That means changing discipline policies in seattle schools and create alternatives that address issues rather than pushing people out of school (aka, the school-to-prison pipeline). - writing circle: coming together to write and have creative space for youth to express themselves. - cop watch: getting together to prevent police brutality and harassment by recording and witnessing the police when they stop people. Coming together to keep our communities safe.

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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 76
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 18
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 81.7%; rating input score 82
Program expense ratio: 66.2%; rating input score 66

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: -23.4%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 51.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -33.6% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -82.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 81.7% of revenue deployed · 66.2% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $78K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
Schedules: 4 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2012 to 2013
Contacts: How to reach this organization
Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.