The Future Begins Today

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311655688
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2009–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Troy, OH, USA
Phone
9373320467
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$153,334
Expenses
$155,109
Assets
$178,718
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Katie Clevenger (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Katie Clevenger (Executive Director)
  • Dan Hake (Trustee)
  • Michael Moore (Trustee)

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

Provide nurturing, mentoring, and scholarship programs and services for at-risk Troy, OH students.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided mentoring, homework helpers, and other activities for at-risk students in elementary, junior high, and high schools in Troy, Ohio

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 95% 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: 43
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 42.9%; rating input score 43
  • Program expense ratio: 42.4%; rating input score 42

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 38.9%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 42.9% of revenue deployed · 42.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $66K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 17 filing years from 2009 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 42/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.