Wisdom in Motion
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923400832
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Hutchinson, KS, USA
- Phone
- 6209609092
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $282,901
- Expenses
- $272,793
- Assets
- $10,108
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Michael Jobe (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Heather Jobe (Program Director): $66,547 total reported compensation
- Michael Jobe (CEO): $63,921 total reported compensation
- Esmeralda Tovar-Mora (Director of Finance): $19,326 total reported compensation
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 guide youth toward success through mentorship, education, and community support. We provide holistic, youth-centered programming that includes leadership development through Future Legacies, urban farming and food access education, outdoor exploration through the NextGen Outdoors Initiative, creative and social-emotional learning via Daydreams Club, international cooking classes that build cultural awareness, behavioral health support, and career readiness and youth entrepreneurship education.
What it reported doing in 2025
Wisdom in Motions Career Readiness and Youth Entrepreneurship program supports youth who are at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system, as well as youth experiencing housing instability, school disengagement, or other barriers to success. The program provides one-on-one mentoring, workforce readiness training, resume building, interview preparation, and youth entrepreneurship education. Participants develop professional skills, explore career pathways, and receive support in setting and achieving education or employment goals. Programming emphasizes economic self-sufficiency, leadership development, and positive decision-making through consistent mentorship and community partnerships.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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: 47
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.7%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 66%; rating input score 66
- Fundraising efficiency: $220.16 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 40%; rating input score 40; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 54.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.7% of revenue deployed · 66% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 2 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $245K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $67K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 40/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 4/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.