Youth Empowerment Siskiyou
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200714947
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Yreka, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5308410844
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Legal Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $970,642
- Expenses
- $1,017,754
- Assets
- $491,367
- Liabilities
- $205,168
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christine Cooper (President)
- Amanee Pitts (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Sarah Springfield (Executive Dir.): $34,755 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Agency advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children within the court system based on the belief that children are entitled to and have an inherent right to a safe and permanent home.The Agency began operating under the name of CASA of Siskiyou County to work in the court system through trained citizen volunteers, in collaboration with key agencies, legal counsel and community resources to serve as the child's advocate and represent the best interest of the child in juvenile court. Since 2016, the agency has also facilitated a trauma-informed summer camp program benefiting local children exposed to domestic violence, physical, sexual or emotional abuse, or other forms of family trauma.In October 2019, the Agency's mission was expanded and the Agency was restructured and renamed Youth Empowerment Siskiyou (YES) to serve as an umbrella agency supporting both the CASA, summer camp and other programs serving any youth age 0-25 who has been exposed to trauma, is in th
What it reported doing in 2024
SUPERVISED VISITATION: To help serve out community as a supervised visitation program. The mission is to encourage, strengthen, and empower children and parents while providing a safe, neutral, accessible place for children to meet with their non-custodial parents or family members that is free from conflict or abuse.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 27
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.48; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.2% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 6 filed program accomplishments · $759K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $35K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.