The Young Americans Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330488250
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2020
Forms available
Form 990 2020
Location
Corona, CA, USA
Phone
9514936753
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Grantmaking Foundations N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,574,520
Expenses
$2,428,047
Assets
$2,850,388
Liabilities
$1,305,112

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KENNETH B MORRIS JR (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • LEIF E GREEN (BOARD VP/CEO- START 6/4/21)
  • ANDRES LUNA II (PAST CEO (7/3/20-6/3/21))

Highest reported compensation

  • ANDRES LUNA II (PAST CEO (7/3/20-6/3/21)): $64,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To promote understanding and goodwill among people through the world through music, dance, performance, academic education, and cultural interaction among student members and their audiences.

What it reported doing in 2020

The young americans music outreach programs conducted performing arts experiences in 200 communities around the world, through 12 touring companies and impacting 55,000 children's lives. These programs bring a live and interactive performing arts expreience into host schools and communities. The program's purpose is to use the challege of learning a show in just a few days as the challenge goal to help children build their self-esteem. Supported by the cast of young americans, who serve as peer leaders and mentors, each participating student is encourage and supported to step out of their comfort zone and express themselves through song, dance, and performance. By fye 2020, the young americans had completed its summer dinner theatre in boyne highlands, Michigan (spanning from the 3rd week in june till the 3rd week in august). Additionally, the young americans completed a third of its outreach tours and camps, to include its major international tour in japan. Moreover, it successfully conducted its annual christmas show performance, "the magic of christmas" at la mirada theatre (spanning from december 5th through 15th for a total of 13 individual shows).

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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.6%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 54%; rating input score 54
  • Fundraising efficiency: $39.98 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 5.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.17; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.46; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.6% of revenue deployed · 54% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $64K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2009 to 2020
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.
  • High — Grant Readiness: California registration: this organization is not authorized to operate as a charity in California.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.