Youth Experience Sponsorship

What it reported doing in 2025

During 2025, youth experience sponsorship ("yes") sponsored 39 individual youth through 59 enrichment experiences and awarded $43,146 in sponsorship grants. These opportunities included educational programs, tutoring, sports teams, camps, arts programs, and other youth development experiences. Youth choose the experience; yes simply helps remove the financial barrier. By connecting donor dollars to real-time family needs, yes partnered with and paid 23 different organizations providing services across a broad range of disciplines and interests.youth experience sponsorship ("yes") is a California nonprofit organization that removes financial barriers so motivated, under-resourced youth can access enriching experiences in athletics, arts, education, and other aspirational endeavors. Yes serves youth and families throughout marin, sonoma, and san mateo counties by sponsoring experiences of their choosing and paying approved organizations directly. We do not claim to know which experience may become meaningful or life-changing for a young person. Our role is simply to create access to more opportunities during the finite years of childhood, when those opportunities matter most.to ensure accountability, yes pays approved organizations directly rather than providing funds to families. We meet families where they are, support them through the application and experience processes, verify eligibility and participation, and remain flexible as interests and needs evolve. Families may apply for additional or different experiences over time, allowing sponsorships to adapt in real time. This approach enables yes to efficiently connect donor dollars to youth opportunities while allowing parents, coaches, teachers, and partner organizations to focus on what they do best: delivering the experiences.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 9.2%; rating input score 9
• Program expense ratio: 60.1%; rating input score 60
• Fundraising efficiency: $56.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Fail
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 86.4%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.15; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: 137.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 161% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings