Year One Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841182631
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Denver, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3034331206
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,746,517
- Expenses
- $5,813,336
- Assets
- $3,109,258
- Liabilities
- $421,122
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIA ABDOOL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KIA ABDOOL (CEO): $132,837 total reported compensation
- ANTONIO BARRIERO (CPO): $98,176 total reported compensation
- LENE NICHOLS (COO): $85,084 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of mile high youth corps is to help youth make a difference in themselves and their community through meaningful service opportunities and educational experiences.
What it reported doing in 2025
Year one, inc. Dba mile high youth corps (the organization) was founded under the laws of the state of Colorado in 1992. The organization is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to help youth make a difference in themselves and their community through meaningful service opportunities and educational experiences. The organization serves 18-24 year-olds in one of three career pathways: land conservation, clean energy, and construction. By integrating paid work experience on community projects with career exploration, education, and life skills training, the organization helps youth develop the skills they need to succeed in the classroom, the workforce, and everyday life. Through hands-on service, youth gain the knowledge, skills, and motivation they need to make positive changes in their own lives, their community, and the environment. The organization operates in 24 counties across the southern front range and the denver metro area. The youth that the organization serves are referred to as corpsmembers. The organization is supported primarily by contract revenue, contributions, and government grants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 69%; rating input score 69; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.7% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $133K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.