Young People in Recovery
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464109067
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Loveland, CO, USA
- Phone
- 7206004977
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,144,440
- Expenses
- $3,238,848
- Assets
- $4,750,673
- Liabilities
- $442,068
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ANN M HERBST (EXE DIR/EX O): $140,689 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide the life skills and peer supports to help young people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2025
National operations: young people in recovery (ypr) envisions a world where all young people have the resources they need to thrive in recovery from addiction to drugs and alcohol. Ypr's mission is to provide the life skills and peer support to help young people recover from substance use disorder and reach their full potential. To do this, ypr organizes community-based chapters to support youth & young adults by creating a national network of young people in recovery and empowering individuals to get involved in their communities by providing them with the tools a peer supports. Ypr also offers life-skills programming. The epic program serves people of all ages in treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. The phoenix program is designed for people of all ages with substance use disorder who are involved with the criminal justice system (drug courts, diversion courts) or other agencies that serve this population. We are proud of our outcomes proving that our participants are improving their dedication to their individualized recovery programs; are more engaged with a peer group that supports their recovery; and become better able to access resources that assist their recovery like housing, education, and employment. Ypr welcomes all recovery pathways and is involved in advocacy and harm reduction projects.
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.
- 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 90
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.4%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $50.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.4% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $141K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.