Urban Youth Impact
Legal name: Urban Youth Impact Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911901103
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- West Palm Beach, FL, United States
- Phone
- (561) 832-9220
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,697,344
- Expenses
- $3,307,140
- Assets
- $8,807,037
- Liabilities
- $432,499
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christopher Tress (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Christopher Tress (President): $63,296 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Urban Youth Impact exists to love, equip, and empower inner-city youth to fulfill their God-given purpose. Andrew Cornell is the founder of Move the Lid, a leadership consulting firm that provides executive coaching, leadership development, and talent management services. He previously served as a Chick-fil-A franchisee and later as Director of Operations at Urban Youth Impact. With a relationship spanning more than 20 years, Andrew has served the organization as a volunteer, staff member, and now board member. He lives in Palm Beach Gardens with his wife, Lyndsey, and their four children. Joe Morrison.
What it reported doing in 2024
Urban Youth Impact operates a private school, after-school programs, and community outreaches serving K-5, high school, and college-aged students. The school provides a private school education for 120 K-5 students with emphasis on academic and character growth. Results: 88% improved reading scores and 53% scored above grade level. The Leadership Academy (TLA), serves the same students with experiential electives in music, cooking, science, technology, arts, sports, and math. Results: students accessed new pathways for growth and achievement. Reframe serves 20+students in 8th grade through college freshmen, providing college and career readiness, life and job skills, post-secondary planning, leadership, and internships. Results: 100% graduation rate, with participants securing employment or college admission.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. No material rating questions were generated from the available inputs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd 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: 10.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.66; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.