Uplift

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
830293525
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2019, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Cheyenne, WY, USA
Phone
3072748861
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$187,432
Expenses
$174,118
Assets
$29,813
Liabilities
$7,229

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHELLE HEINEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • GABRIELA PEDROZA (PRESIDENT)
  • PAUL LINCOLN (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • MICHELLE HEINEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • MELANIE LINCOLN (BOARD MEMBER)
  • AMANDA HUBBARD (BOARD MEMBER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide advocacy and support for families of children with complex behavioral health challenges and other special health care needs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Statewide family network - support children and young adults with serious emotional disturbances as a family-run organization, enabling them to advocate for and participate in mental health services planning and reform. Provided peer support, enhance leadership skills, and influence state-level policies to ensure mental health care is "family driven and youth guided." during this fiscal year, 223 families were served by this program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 65% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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. 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: 45
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 32
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.7%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 47%; rating input score 47

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.1%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 41.5%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -20.7% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -25.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -21.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.7% of revenue deployed · 47% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $82K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 47/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.