StandUp for Kids
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330414855
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Decatur, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4049546614
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,967,424
- Expenses
- $3,122,211
- Assets
- $4,433,412
- Liabilities
- $145,915
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kelly Fields (Chair/Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Kelly Fields (Chair/Executive Director): $102,977 total reported compensation
- Erin Murphy (Controller): $87,751 total reported compensation
- Kim Sisson (Director): $33,930 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of StandUp for Kids is to end the cycle of youth homelessness. We do this every day in cities across America. We carry out our mission through our volunteers, who go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help homeless and street kids improve their lives by providing and connecting them with life-saving services.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth homelessness is happening in plain sight. Kids are being kicked out. Sleeping on couches, on floors that aren't theirs, in cars. Trying to stay invisible while trying to survive. In the United States, over 4.2 million young people experience homelessness each year. Over fifty thousand youth sleep on the streets for six months or more each year, and more than half a million experience episodes of homelessness for a week or longer. But that cycle can be broken. StandUp for Kids is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending youth homelessness by building trust, breaking cycles of instability, and supporting young people as they transition to safe, self-sufficient adulthood. Our commitment extends beyond crisis services, providing sustained support with guidance and check-ins that help ensure lasting stability and independence through key transition periods. Support may include food access, mentoring, housing stabilization, and education and workforce navigation. Meals and hygiene supplies are provided alongside conversation, trust-building, and follow-ups. Housing navigation includes coaching, advocacy, and practical problem-solving, while mentoring is paired with concrete assistance that removes barriers to stability. During 2025, StandUp for Kids nationwide made 42,662 youth connections, distributed 40,743 meals, and supported 10,618 urgent shelter nights. Our volunteers provided 33,137 hours of their time to the young people we serve. Youth participating in our school mentoring programs had a 100% graduation rate in 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.2%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.42; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.3% of revenue deployed · 86.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.