YAI
Legal name: Young Adult Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 112030172
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122736100
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Developmentally Disabled Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $297,444,544
- Expenses
- $292,277,738
- Assets
- $214,693,750
- Liabilities
- $202,397,981
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY MILCHMAN (ACTING CEO)
- KEVIN CAREY (CEO (UNTIL 6/30/25))
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN CAREY (CEO (UNTIL 6/30/25)): $765,420 total reported compensation
- ANTHONY OTTRANDO (CHIEF HR OFFICER): $405,795 total reported compensation
- RAVI DAHIYA (CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER): $398,328 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
YAI is committed to providing first-rate, essential services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and/or behavioral health needs to enable living, loving, working, and learning in their communities. Today, YAI has a team of over 4,000 employees and supports over 20,000 people in the I/DD community. This extraordinary growth shows the ongoing need for these important services and YAI’s success in offering them. YAI supports people with autism, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy, among others. Operating in New York State, New Jersey, and California, YAI now offers more than 300 programs for people of all ages. Better Together: At YAI, we are driven by our mission of living, loving, working, and learning. This applies not only to the people we support but to our staff as well. Commitment and passion for the work continue to unite employees and drive the...
What it reported doing in 2024
Day and community services - day habilitation offers individualized and group activities designed to teach life skills, build relationships, promote independence and provide engagement in the community. In addition, trained specialists provide individualized skills training in the home and the community. Focus is on a person's strengths and critical skills for development, including building skills and independence in the areas of self care, social skills development, money management, life safety, household tasks, enjoying the community, and job success.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.9%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 88.5%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 39th 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: 1.7%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 86.9% of revenue deployed · 88.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $258.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $765K · 19 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $10.5M reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.