Wii Care Project

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922674332
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
6787904410
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$267,000
Expenses
$267,000
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ricky Usher (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Ricky Usher (Executive Director)

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

Our mission is to empower and protect youth at high risk of being involved in or impacted by gun violence by providing comprehensive support services advocacy and safe spaces. We are committed to fostering resilience and opportunity through legal advocacy mentorship job training community engagement educational support access to mental health resources and holistic family services. By nurturing the potential of every young person we work to break cycles of violence and build stronger safer communities.

What it reported doing in 2025

Wii Cares Changing Lanes Youth Development & Violence Prevention Program is a cohort-based initiative supporting youth and young adults aged 14-24 affected by community violence economic hardship and systemic barriers. The program offers trauma-informed mentorship leadership development workforce readiness training and paid internships to foster stability and long-term self-sufficiency. Participants engage in life skills conflict resolution emotional wellness and career exploration through structured activities. Trained staff and credible messengers provide guidance integrating violence prevention with job training financial literacy and safe income opportunities. Individualized services include goal planning community resource access and family engagement to tackle root causes of instability. By combining healing-centered engagement with economic empowerment the program guides participants away from harmful environments towards community roles. The program aims to reduce youth violence risk factors and enhance protective factors like employment leadership skills and community ties.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 72% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 18
  • Sustainability: 25
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.2%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.2% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 7 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $203K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.