YES Nature to Neighborhoods
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030458294
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Richmond, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5102323032
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,129,180
- Expenses
- $3,556,219
- Assets
- $8,969,142
- Liabilities
- $575,315
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Eric Aaholm (Executive Dir.): $163,489 total reported compensation
- Blanca Hernandez Nieto (Dir Prog/Partnrshp): $144,838 total reported compensation
- Devika Saxena (Dir. Development): $109,640 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
In partnership with nature, YES nurtures leaders who champion the wellbeing of our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
234 youth and families participated in 3 Family Camps experiencing weekend-long family camps. Campers participated in hiking, archery, ziplining, environmental education, and traditional camp games. In the process, they built their self-confidence and social and leadership skills; they were challenged in a new environment; and they formed new friendships and relationships with peers, older youth role models, and adult mentors. 61 youth and families explored outdoor spaces within their own communities at Nature Day Outings.YES supported 9 adults with Wellness Community Care Circles, 9 youth in a Wellness Club.13 received 1:1 counseling support, monthly mentor-ship, and regular wellness checks. 8 families received a small Resilience Fund with emergency cash during times of hardship, and 120 gift cards were distributed to 34 YES families during the December holiday.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 85% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.7%; rating input score 51
- Program expense ratio: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99%; rating input score 99; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 21st 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: 30.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.7%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.7% of revenue deployed · 69.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $163K · 14 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $399K reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.