Young Actors Guild Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 621813001
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9016902377
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $525,559
- Expenses
- $476,426
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRYSTI CHANDLER (PRESIDENT CEO)
- SABRINA NORWOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- CHRYSTI CHANDLER (PRESIDENT CEO)
- SABRINA NORWOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- TYRONNE CURRIE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Arts engagement through young actors guild positively impacts students across academic, social, and emotional domains. Participation in structured yag performing arts programs has shown: improved literacy, math engagement, and critical thinking reduced disciplinary incidents and increase school attendance strengthened emotional regulation, teamwork, and leadership skills provide trauma-informed outlets for expression and healing for students engaged in yag, the arts can serve as a stabilizing forceoffering consistency, mentorship, and purpose during non-school hours. Creates safe, supervised spaces during peak unsupervised hours reinforces positive relationships with caring adults and mentors elevates student voice and cultural identity strengthens school-community connections the academy leverages community partnerships, ensuring accessibility and familiarity for students and families.
What it reported doing in 2025
Founder chrysti chandler received the 2026 humanitarian award from the memphis city council founder chrysti chandler named a women of passion by the womens foundation founder chrysti chandler honored by the commercial appeal top 10 people who make a difference in memphis yag alumni - musician charles streeter whos played with chaka khan, j. Lo, and prince yag alumni - she street whos danced with missey elliot and at the super bowl yag alumni - gedeon mckinney from american idol yag alumni - alexis grace from american idol yag alumni - lil buck from so you think you can dance, super bowl, and lexus and apple commercials yag evvie mckinney winner of the four and motown recording artist, yag alumni - jaylon hunter disney and broadways lion king, broadways mj the musical yag alumni - joshua strong / mya hawkins accepted into joffrey ballet yag has a 98 graduation rate from college yag students have performed for former vice president kamal harris, former president bill clinton, alvin ailey, dance theatre of harlem, and the apollo theatr
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 75%; rating input score 75; 0th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.3%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.3% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.1% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $488K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 18 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.