Youth Achievers USA Institute
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 204945833
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Kennesaw, GA, USA
- Phone
- 6787521264
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,038
- Expenses
- $10,500
- Assets
- $144,356
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stephanie A Walker Stradford (YouthUSA Chair and CEO; Chair, J.D.1 & Laurena Walker Fund Task Force)
People named in this filing
- Stephanie A Walker Stradford (YouthUSA Chair and CEO; Chair, J.D.1 & Laurena Walker Fund Task Force)
- Eric Stradford (YouthUSA CIO - Program Development Officer)
- Vacant (Director)
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
The mission of YouthUSA is to build capacity around youth and young adults, ages 7-24, empowering them to believe and achieve their Spiritual, Physical, Social, Financial, Educational, Professional and Recreational goals. YouthUSA values each vision of the future as a Money-n-the-Bank Community Asset.
What it reported doing in 2025
The J.D. and Laurena Walker Fund (JDLWF) serves as a development program, supporting YouthUSA programs. The program monitored budgets within a $100,000 in FDIC Insured bank assets toward an endowment for sustaining #NoPoverty2030. A replicable $100 million endowment is envisioned through crowdfunding and grants, demonstrated by the assessed needs of 100 Generation Alpha beneficiaries. Each Gen Alpha has a projected $1 million Whole Village Trust, economically including 20 caring adults, each with a minimum net worth of $50,000 by June 9, 2030. JDLW 2023 program spending of $3042 supported cash and hardware grants. The program invested in maintenance of virtual (Internet sites) and real property (GrandMentors' House), compounding value to inherited resources from the J.D. and Laurena Walker Family. In 1996, Laurena Puriefoy Walker invested faith in the YouthUSA community as its first GrandMentor. Youth Achievers USA Institute engages current and new directors in codifying this edification for elders in the YouthUSA Corporate Village. #PlayTheGame is under development as a process for inclusion in shared ownership of The New Stradford Hotel Upon Black Wall Street. Outcomes are yet to be determined.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.5%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.75; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.4% per year; rating input score 0; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.