The Happy Crew Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 731627224
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Highlands Ranch, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3039161515
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $435,331
- Expenses
- $432,106
- Assets
- $87,326
- Liabilities
- $6,757
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY BINDER MAYS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY BINDER MAYS (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $57,688 total reported compensation
- MEGAN MAYS (SECRETARY): $14,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Happy crew destigmatizes mental health issues by creating a supportive, inclusive community where everyone knows they matter and belong. Through our efforts, we aim to teach everyone how to navigate life in a mentally healthy way, ensuring that each person feels valued and understood.
What it reported doing in 2025
Coffee shop operations to create an environment where kids can get together and feel a sense of community. The operation revenues help support the operation of weekly meetings where the members meet weekly and discuss methods to manage their life issues and mental health concerns.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.3%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 98.1%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 11
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.7%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.6%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 33.2% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.3% of revenue deployed · 98.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 1 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $424K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $58K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.