Serve Our Youth Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
421509765
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2013
Forms available
Form 990 2012, Form 990-EZ 2013
Location
Pella, IA, USA
Phone
6416283737
Rating
57
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Research Institutes and Public Policy Analysis

Reported finances

Revenue
$137,859
Expenses
$143,261
Assets
$29,402
Liabilities
$814

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jim Koopman (President)
  • Chad Quist (President)

People named in this filing

  • Sandra Smith (Director)
  • Jeff Van Maanen (Director)
  • Gary Garvis (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 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To equip an expanding network of congregations to partner with existing service providers of high-risk youth in providing resources and volunteers through youth services in urban Polk County and restorative justice programs in a growing number of rural counties.

What it reported doing in 2013

Serve Our Youth is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping young people succeed in life. We recognize that today's parents and youth face many challenges. We help families face those challenges by providing youth with positive, caring adults who can act as friends, mentors and encouragers. Serve Our Youth serves many young people ranging in age from four to eighteen. We often serve those who: * Have incarcerated parents, * Are having difficulties in school or personal relationships, * Are involved in the court system, * Or are living away from home in a youth shelter, detention center, relative or foster parent's home or other treatment facility.Our youth services programs primarily focus on mentoring and working with youth in juvenile shelters and detention centers.

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. 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: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 30.4%; rating input score 30
  • Program expense ratio: 29.3%; rating input score 29

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: -3.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -38% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -13.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 30.4% of revenue deployed · 29.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $42K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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 30/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 29/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.