Young Fashion

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
475595651
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Middlebury, VT, USA
Phone
8029899458
Rating
35
Verdict
REVIEW
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Thrift Shops

Reported finances

Revenue
$84,805
Expenses
$92,316
Assets
$9,822
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeanette Gyukeri (Executive Director)
  • Damian Tollens (President)
  • Hannah Hoopaugh (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Jeanette Gyukeri (Executive Director)
  • Jutta Miska (Secretary)
  • Ann Perreault (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Offer fashionable and affordable clothing to a diverse group of young adults. Foster recycling awareness amongst young people. Break down social/economic barriers (stereotyping) by encouraging the purchase of second hand clothing as a cool practice within the young adult community. Empower young people to take on leadership roles and provide meaningful learning opportunities to develop life skills essential to personal growth and employment ability. create an opportunity for young adult employment at the thrift store, as well as offer internships, work study and training specifically geared towards the development of skills necessary for successful future employment. Provide scholarships to support young adults who seek work training and education other than the traditional college pathway, such as post high school Vocational Education courses. Connecting young adults with mentors from Middlebury College as well with mentors in our business and art/trade community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide one scholarship to support young adults in training and education at a vocational venue

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 87% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 73% for direct work, and 27% for grants.

The verdict

REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 2
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 2.2%; rating input score 2
  • Program expense ratio: 2%; rating input score 2

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.11; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -30.2% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.7% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 2.2% of revenue deployed · 2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.