Urban Youth Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900355477
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2010
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6195494953
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,019,814
- Expenses
- $2,032,690
- Assets
- $833,585
- Liabilities
- $17,796
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- REV NATE LANDIS (CEO AND FOUNDER)
Highest reported compensation
- REV NATE LANDIS (CEO AND FOUNDER): $143,973 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Presenting life options made possible through the gospel of jesus christ to urban youth in san diego (ca), sacramento/grass valley (ca), columbia (sc), atlanta (ga), spokane (wa), tijuana (mx), and addis ababa (et).
What it reported doing in 2025
Project 25 community service challenge: each year, students from 30-50 middle and high school clubs perform over volunteer service to the communities of san diego, mexico, and atlanta. We challenge young leaders to read the parable of the talents in matthew 25. They prayerfully identify a need in their school, city, or world that they wanted to meet in the name of jesus. Then, they made a short video giving an account of how they put the funds to work on behalf of others. We host all clubs at a red carpet awards celebration. Community leaders present trophies to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place projects that made the most incredible impact with their resources. Over the years, students have been involved in such projects as purchasing the freedom of slaves in sudan, drilling fresh water wells in developing countries, designing an anti-bullying mural at a school where bullying caused a suicide, feeding the homeless, sharing the good news about jesus with friends, cleaning up beaches, and other meaningful outreach events for the community. During the past eighteen years over 350,000 hours of community service has been generated by students leaders who raised over $250,000 toward kingdom causes (local and global) that jesus cares about.
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 7th 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -0.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.4% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 14 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $144K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.