Youth For Tomorrow
Legal name: Youth for Tomorrow-new Life Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521342268
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bristow, VA, USA
- Phone
- (703) 955-3142
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $57,182,178
- Expenses
- $56,609,938
- Assets
- $25,663,532
- Liabilities
- $19,756,911
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
50 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBORAH THOMPKINS JOHNSON (PRESIDENT)
- TOM HOLLY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DR GARY L JONES SEE SCH J (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- DR GARY L JONES SEE SCH J (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $1,188,693 total reported compensation
- RICHARD VON GERSDORFF (CFO/COO): $719,509 total reported compensation
- LOVE JONES (VP DEVELOPMENT & PR): $445,300 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide children and families with the opportunity to focus their lives and develop the confidence, skills, intellectual ability, spiritual insight and moral integrity - each based on Godly principles, resulting in positive changes to the benefit of the child, the family, the community, and the nation.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth for tomorrow-new life center, inc. Operates a behavioral health services program which helps people in the areas of crises intervention, outpatient services, diagnostic and assessment services, therapeutic day treatment and intensive in-home services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.93 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 8 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 96.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 40 of 40 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $54.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 50 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.