Youth Design Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 611588242
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2017
- Forms available
- Form 990 2016, Form 990-EZ 2017, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6178384567
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $173,489
- Expenses
- $156,683
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DENISE KORN NACHMANOFF (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- MARK FELDMAN (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- DENISE KORN NACHMANOFF (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- MARK FELDMAN (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
- BRETT MATTINGLY (TREASURER & 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 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Youth design empowers talented urban youth to pursue a path to higher education and promising equitable careers by engaging the professional design community to mentor, educate, train and employ the next generation.
What it reported doing in 2017
Youth design is a multi-dimensional 24-month program that spans 2 summers and the 2 academic years between. The summer immersion program provides 2 concurrent summers of paid employment. During summer #1, the students are paid to take a dual-credit "introductory to graphic design" course designed by youth design's education consultant (also a professor at massart) and attend professional design workshops with leading design professionals. During summer #2, the students are placed in paid internships at for-profit professional design firms, agencies, and in-house creative departments, some at npo's as well. The 2-summer immersion programs are also coupled with robust online resources and school year curricula, including participation in civic, cultural and design related activities throughout boston. The goals of youth design's 24-month program include: targeting a diverse cadre of youth in terms of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic and urban schools; developing 1:1 relationships between students and professional design mentors; accompanying, supporting and committing resources to ensure a 100% high school graduation rate and matriculations to college; and inspiring and advocating for the diversification of the design industry that will better serve a nation whose shifting demographics requires a more robust and diverse leadership and creative economic workforce.during 2017, student sponsorship totaling $40,559 was made to one organization in support of summer internship costs. No student scholarship was awarded in 2017.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 58% for direct work, and 42% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 55.5%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 61.5%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.9% per year; rating input score 0; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 55.5% of revenue deployed · 61.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $96K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2010 to 2017
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.