Truth for Youth Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
593273230
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
Location
Pensacola, FL, USA
Phone
8503930332
Rating
54
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$69,639
Expenses
$67,308
Assets
$813,460
Liabilities
$38,250

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN POWELL (PRESIDENT)
  • TERRY ROBINSON (PRESIDENT)
  • CLIFTON POWELL (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JOHN POWELL (PRESIDENT)
  • TERRY ROBINSON (PRESIDENT)
  • TOMI HILL (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Truth For Youth provides educational cultural and social programs for at-risk inner city youth ages 6 to 16. Programs address the prevention intervention and reduction of youth crime violence delinquency gang activity drug and alcohol abuse child neglect teen pregnancy and illiteracy. Activities promote civic responsibility positive interaction with peers and authority figures peaceful conflict resolution respect for self and others social growth and personal development.

What it reported doing in 2025

Other Program Services Activity consists of small-sized activities including MLK event Triple Treat event Movie on the Lawn Easter Celebration

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

MIXED - 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: 15
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 55
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 17%; rating input score 17
  • Program expense ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 18
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.09; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 17% of revenue deployed · 17.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 43 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2010 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.