Young New Yorkers Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
811465388
IRS 990 coverage
2021–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Phone
7188419423
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Crime Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$411,261
Expenses
$481,424
Assets
$114,430
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RACHEL BARNARD (Executive Director)
  • DAVID RIVEL (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • BOBBIE BROWN (Executive Dir.): $151,885 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Founded in 2012, young new yorkers' restorative art diversion programs allow young people to exit the criminal legal system, have their cases dismissed and sealed, and avoid a life-long criminal record. In addition, our graduate programs offer long-term opportunities for young people to transform the criminal justice system through advocacy forums, public art exhibitions, and other events. These events often take place in courtrooms where participants can engage criminal justice professionals and leaders and advocate for a more humane criminal legal system.in ten years we have successfully diverted more than 1,800 young people away from jail and other sanctions. Today, we remain the only citywide provider of arts-based diversion programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Our restorative art-diversion program consists of one-, two-, or three-day structured art sessions. Rad sessions are taught by teaching artists including yny graduates and other credible messengers who have experience with the criminal legal system. Yny organizes rad workshops for approximately 300 participants each year.yny holds monthly graduate programs for young people to stay involved in our community following the completion of their session mandate. In 2021, yny launched its fellowship program. Yny fellows are invited to participate in weekly yny staff meetings to share insights into how yny can evolve as an organization. Fellows also co-facilitate rad sessions providing peer mentorship for new participants, helping new them to investigate their personal choices while advocating for legal systems change. Rad programs typically culminate in courtroom exhibitions, attended by police officers, judges, and lawyers, to "re-meet" participants in a new context and see young new yorkers beyond their rap sheets. Young new yorkers recently collaborated with moma ps1 to hold its first ever virtual exhibition. Curated by graduates of yny's programs, this public exhibit gave young people a platform to use their creativity and powerful voices to bring public attention to their experience with the criminal legal system, and their visions for its reform.

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 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

MIXED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 55
  • Accountability: 21
  • Sustainability: 22
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.3%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 59.2%; rating input score 59
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -17.1%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.24; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 31.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -49.3% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -61.2% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.3% of revenue deployed · 59.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $285K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 20 of 22 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.