Teens Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841380016
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Nederland, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3032583821
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,513,617
- Expenses
- $5,314,241
- Assets
- $5,899,515
- Liabilities
- $361,771
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER KAROWE (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- WENDY BIRD (MEMBER)
- LEYLA BLY (SECRETARY)
- SHEENA FITZGERALD (MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Teens, inc. Supports, educates, and empowers youth and their families to make healthy choices and thrive.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education - since september 2002, teens, inc. Has offered an alternative high school program, chinook west, to area youth who are at risk or have already dropped out. Chinook west's mission is to support and promote each student's educational goals and life aspirations. Upon graduation, chinook west students are prepared to make responsible choices about emotional and personal well-being and have the life and academic skills to accomplish their goals. In september 2015, teens, inc. Began administering the secondary and post secondary education programming at lookout mountain youth service center - the largest youth corrections facility in the state. Lookout academy serves 148 incarcerated boys. The contract to administer lookout academy is self-sustaining with the Colorado division of youth services. Since 2019, teens, inc. Has run a preschool for 2.5 - 5 year olds, new explorers learning center.
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
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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.6%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 89.9%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $13.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 18.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.2% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 73.6% of revenue deployed · 89.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.