Yldp
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993376203
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Vestavia, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2054103328
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $505,537
- Expenses
- $562,808
- Assets
- $17,107
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN WALSH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN WALSH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $133,833 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To help high school students develop leadership skills that are chosen for this program; valuing demonstrated character instead of academic standing. To help partner these students with colleges and scholarships that support this initiative.
What it reported doing in 2025
Walk for warriorsthe organization conducts the annual "walk for warriors," a 5k community event organized through the youth leadership development program (yldp) to honor u.s. Veterans and promote patriotism. This program serves as the first of three annual patriotism events held each november and engages participating students and community members in activities focused on civic responsibility and national service.during the year, yldp students were organized into teams representing notable american heroes and participated in planning, fundraising, and execution of the event. The walk is open to the public and encourages participation from community members and "patriot sponsors" who contribute financial support for the program's mission.for the 2025 program year, the event focused on honoring vietnam war veterans through a fundraising initiative to support the installation of two memorial statues. One statue, "the three marines vietnam war memorial," was installed at the american village in montevallo, and a second, the vietnam women's memorial recognizing military nurses, was installed at troy university.this program advances the organization's exempt purpose by fostering youth leadership development, promoting civic engagement, and honoring the service and sacrifice of u.s. Veterans through educational programming and community participation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 81% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 94
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $39.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -11.3%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.03; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 90.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -125.6% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $519K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $134K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.