St Paul Youth Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411316444
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- St Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6517711301
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $479,146
- Expenses
- $935,440
- Assets
- $1,753,194
- Liabilities
- $65,620
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR TRACINE ASBERRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DR TRACINE ASBERRY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $236,879 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve our community's collective ability to engage and support black youth by pioneering practices, creating tools, and sharing resources across the state, the country, and the world.
What it reported doing in 2025
Pre-charge diversion this restorative justice program offers an alternative to court for a range of first-time offenses, including shoplifting, property damage, and curfew violations, helping young people avoid repeat mistakes and stay out of the criminal justice system. In 2024 spys conducted outreach to 167 youth & their families who received a pre-charge diversion referral and expanded community outreach and education among youth-serving organizations to awareness of the program and reach more youth with support before they encounter the justice system. Pre-charge diversion contracts take between 3 - 6 months to complete and 22 of these youth completed contract requirements with their parents and guardians. Pre-charge diversion. Counselors also provided support to 89 students and their families.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -95.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.1% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $703K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $237K · 5 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.