The Joy Connection Living Your Joy Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812875082
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
- Location
- Encinitas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 7602019242
- Rating
- 40
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,486
- Expenses
- $42,373
- Assets
- $99
- Liabilities
- $8,106
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARNIE YOUNG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- MARNIE YOUNG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DOBNALD CASHMORE (SECRETARY/MENTORSHIP)
- ASHLEY BLANC (BOARD MEMBER/SEC)
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
The specific purose of this organization is to provide a safe environment for children and adults of all abililties to express their physical (gross motor) needs, guided by trained professional coaches, teachers and play facilitators. We provide unigue programs tht cannot be found anywhere else in our country. It is our goal to provide existing programs and create new ones for chilren and adults for the betterment of their mind, body and spirit.
What it reported doing in 2025
Adapted aquatics for the year adapted personal training and animal encouter events with ducks and rabbits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.5%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 81.88; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.5% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.