Young Mind Community Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824860640
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6022376653
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Kindergarten, Preschool, Nursery School, Early Admissions
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $293,991
- Expenses
- $309,097
- Assets
- $240,027
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMANDA MERTEL (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- AMANDA MERTEL (PRESIDENT)
- SARA MERTEL (VICE PRESIDE)
- REENA PATEL (TREASURER, S)
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
Young mind community center, an Arizona nonprofit corporation, is a school which is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes within the meaning of i.r.c 501(c)(3). These purposes shall include, but not be limited to, assisting those with developmental disabilities by inspiring hope and developing potential through identification, education, and community.
What it reported doing in 2025
The school's innovative and inclusive early learning center provides a strong foundation that sets the stage for future academic and personal achievement. Children ages 18 months to 5 years, with and without autism, benefit from practices that promote young children's optimal learning and development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 37
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.2%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 33.3%; rating input score 33; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -5.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.78; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 1 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $307K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.