The Genesis Youth Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 510743449
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9548010700
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,062
- Expenses
- $119,690
- Assets
- $177,385
- Liabilities
- $1,900
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- MARTIN CAMPBELL (CHAIRMAN)
- GARY BROWN (EXEC. DIRECT)
- KARA WALLACE (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The genesis youth project (formerly known as youth for christ - ft. Lauderdale) a Florida non-profit corporation serving greater ft. Lauderdale area / broward county continuously since incorporating on december 7, 1979, exists to meet the spiritual needs of hard-to-reach kids (ages 11-19). Since 2001, the organization has focused on high-risk kids in secure/legally forced confinement, correctional facilities, jails, specialized community group-foster homes and lockups by providing pastoral care, bible studies, spiritual counseling/guidance, life coaching, and chaplaincy services. Pastor brown was awarded Florida djj "volunteer of the year" as a fl-djj chaplain. Pastor brown serves as chairperson on the "south Florida human trafficking task force" (sfhttf) interfaith committee. The organization provided a fl-djj dads (fatherhood) initiative at bytc (broward youth treatment center) specifically with youth who were fathers to encourage engagement and responsible fatherhood. Additionally,
What it reported doing in 2024
Evangelized and/or discipled over 75 unique kids (ages 11-19) in juvenile residential jails and foster homes within broward county (circuit 17) via bible studies at juvenile (djj) residential correctional facilities, as well as distributing bibles and other discipleship, religious material/literature at: broward youth treatment center (40-beds), lilac girls home (6-beds), avidity-harmony girls home (1 and 2: 14-beds). The organization worked closely with families whose teenage children were victims of adult sexual assault and abuse, providing confidential spiritual/pastoral counseling, intervention, and guidance. Provided pastoral care to christian and non-christian parents whose teenager have various behavioral, legal, and spiritual issues/problems. Pastor brown serves on the circuit 17 faith-based leadership board and provides state- wide leadership and training for Florida djj. Serving residential homes or residential long-term shelters serving girls ages 12-17 victimized and traumatized by sex trafficking and sexual exploitation. The organization provides effective & innovative, faith-based programming and chaplaincy services to these impaired young girls haunted by their childhood experiences and the effects of coercion. Note: another Florida npo (EIN: 82-4104101) incorporated august 17, 2017, has appropriated our extensive history and ministry impact. A cease-and- desist letter was sent. Celebrating over 46-years of successful ministry programming in greater ft. Lauderdale/broward county (1979-current)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -109.8%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.48; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 42.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $107K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.