Ya-ya Network Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471422209
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122390022
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $519,100
- Expenses
- $416,158
- Assets
- $123,262
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAUL SOTO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- AMY WAGNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- RAUL SOTO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $122,250 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ya-ya network advances civic engagement and racial justice by building the power of young people to affect systemic change. For 25 years, the ya-ya network has empowered nyc's black, brown, and immigrant youth to transform policies that have negatively impacted their communities. We provide mentoring, peer education, core training in anti-oppression, organizing skills, and political education that engages youth as leaders and active members in campaigns that directly impact the communities in which they live. All our programs stress community-building and provide opportunities for hands-on learning while providing modest stipends to support our youth economically.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission of the ya-ya network is to provide training and leadership experience. To prepare young people to become the next generation of activist in theh movement for social and economic justice. Ya-ya is a youth-driven, citywide, anti-racist, anti-sexist organization and allies with the lgbtq community. Our organization is staffed by young activists ages 15-25, who provide peer education, training and mentoring to youth leaders in nyc. We provide core training in anti-opression, organizng skills and political education then engage as leaders and active members in campaigns that directly impact youth, their families and the communities they live in.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71.6%; rating input score 72
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $568.54 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.8%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 29.4%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 71.6% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $372K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $122K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.