Sonward Youth Programs
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 815393972
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New Kensington, PA, USA
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,774
- Expenses
- $121,460
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Kim Louis (Director)
- Rachel Schultz (Program Manager)
- Evan Louis (Workforce Mentor)
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
Sonward serves youth in disadvantaged neighborhoods through youth enrichment programs advocacy academic support barrier mitigation and teen employment.
What it reported doing in 2025
Afterschool and summer programs for 125 youth in the neighborhoods in Westmoreland County with the highest poverty rates.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 78% 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 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: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.5%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 37.2%; rating input score 37
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: -38.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.4%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -33.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.5% of revenue deployed · 37.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 6 filed program accomplishments · $45K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.