Truth for Youth

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
911833971
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2014–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Lima, OH, USA
Phone
4192367935
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$153,782
Expenses
$136,518
Assets
$136,669
Liabilities
$11,913

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JULIANNE BURK (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JULIANNE BURK (PRESIDENT)
  • TRISHA MCKINNEY (CHAIRPERSON)
  • MOLLIE MENKE (SECRETARY)

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

Guiding light is dedicated to providing the highest quality educational program with the cornerstones of value learning, self-worth among residents and staff, quality housing to ensure a safe and healthy evnironment, and transition for women in crisis to be a productive and responsible participation in society at large. We look forward to overcoming the epidemic of poverty and long term government assistance.

What it reported doing in 2025

To help women who are in crisis, who are recovering from addiction or are victims of crime, to prepare for the future with proper guidance. Our goal is to ensure that these women do not fall into the gap of long-term government assistance, poverty, and hoplessness. We can accomplish this by teaching residents how to practice financial planning and the importance of employment, having discusstion about their individual goals and progress on those goals, and by providing encouragement and positive regard to help them gain and maintain a sense of self worth.

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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 65% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $100K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.