Young Marines of the Marine Corps League
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382346425
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Dumfries, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8007170060
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,329,678
- Expenses
- $5,663,096
- Assets
- $5,529,862
- Liabilities
- $731,027
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- WILLIAM DAVIS (NATIONAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTO): $221,580 total reported compensation
- WILSON LEE (DEPUTY DIRECTOR-EAST/CHIEF): $196,231 total reported compensation
- FELICE SAVA (DIRECTOR OF FINANCE): $132,252 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of young marines is to positively impact america's future by providing quality youth development programs for boys and girls that nurture and develop its members into responsible citizens who enjoy and promote a healthy, drug-free lifesytle.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth and adult programs - the organization holds youth programs that are aimed to promote the mental, moral and physical development of young americans by providing a variety of activities designed to develop self-esteem, discipline, confidence and a drug-free lifestyle. Additionally, the organization holds adult programs that are aimed to help train supervisors to run youth programs and aid in the development of young americans.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $66.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 63rd 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: 10.5%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.98; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.5% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.2% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $222K · 15 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $221K reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.