The Youth Athlete Project
Legal name: Youth Athlete Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 993303526
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Albuquerque, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5059105133
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,000
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $1,042
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Abby Merhege (Executive Director & President)
- Mckenna Guidice (Vice-President)
People named in this filing
- Abby Merhege (Executive Director & President)
- Mckenna Guidice (Vice-President)
- Addi Loftis (Treasurer)
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
To make youth sports safer throughout our community by creating safe environments free from abusive coaching and providing mental health support for young athletes.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Youth Athlete Project drafted a curriculum for our model to train coaches and athletes. This was done after consulting licensed mental health providers and sports psychologists for guidance. The result was a comprehensive, 26-page curriculum to use for our presentations to local youth sports teams.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 183.9% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 184.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.