Youth Fair Chance Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
310969668
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Phone
3176357774
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$921,241
Expenses
$1,328,080
Assets
$260,954
Liabilities
$334,481

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Danny Woodcock (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Drew Dawson (Executive Director, Cincinnati OH)
  • Vickie Hatfield (Board President)
  • Jack Hatfield (Board Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Danny Woodcock (Chief Executive Officer): $70,200 total reported compensation
  • Kerri Dillon (Director of Marketing, Indianapolis, IN): $70,200 total reported compensation
  • Drew Dawson (Executive Director, Cincinnati OH): $60,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Youth Fair Chance is a not for profit building materials warehouse whose mission is to divert usable materials from landfills and keep them in viable use in our communities. The agency also works to eliminate improvident dumping and to educate the public, especially youth, on the importance of recycling and reuse.

What it reported doing in 2025

Educating communities about recycling - Youth Fair Chance educates youth and the community in general about recycling through its website, through community newsletters, through its new email marketing campaign, and through its constituency list for contacts including clients, donors, and other community agencies. Outreach budget stays very low as its run on a volunteer basis and with contributed materials. The warehouses welcome tour groups to explain more about the agency's mission. All people, especially youth, are encouraged to volunteer. Additionally, YFC representatives are sometimes invited to speak at events and other gatherings or to the media. Youth Fair Chance is committed to sharing reclaimed and rescued materials with other not-for-profit agencies, with a focus on helping agencies who serve youth. It is dedicated to helping preserve resources for the future. Youth Fair Chance is a member of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management's Pollution Prevention Program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
  • Fundraising efficiency: $0 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -44.2%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.28; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 15.1%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.1% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $966K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $70K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.