Why Initiative Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
822075398
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Jackson, MS, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$34,992
Expenses
$29,481
Assets
$36,571
Liabilities
$61

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Torrey Moore (Board President)
  • Calicia Hobbs (Vice President)
  • Candace Mayes (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Torrey Moore (Board President)
  • Calicia Hobbs (Vice President)
  • Ramonica Lewis (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To positively address educate coordinate and provide support to youth families school businesses and ultimately communities. The purpose of the organization is to encourage and equip area youth to build healthy relationships develop passions contribute to community and grow personally.

What it reported doing in 2025

Building Farm Success 2 Project The major benefits to participating in this Business Farm Success 2 project are that socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers women veterans and youth will gain a thorough understanding of how to start a farming ranching business develop comprehensive business farm and marketing plans efficiently manage a farm and develop relationships and receive assistance from the network of agencies that offer small farm programs and services in Mississippi.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 51
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 25.7%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: -34% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.