Youth Helpers
Legal name: Youth Helpers Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475289752
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Upland, CA, United States
- Phone
- 855-888-8660
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Support N.E.C.
- Affiliation
- Religious (unspecified)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $251,302
- Expenses
- $212,942
- Assets
- $171,207
- Liabilities
- $59,505
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHARLES LEPINS (CEO)
People named in this filing
- CHARLES LEPINS (CEO)
- REBECCA LEPINS (Secretary)
- PHIL COTHRAN (CFO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mission Statement: • Empowering children for a brighter future. Youth Helpers is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping children locally and globally in a variety of ways. Youth Helpers believes that children are the foundation of our future and all children should be allowed the opportunities to grow and discover who they were created to be. Founded in 2011 through Laurel Pines Camp, Youth Helpers was created to directly impact children as our sole purpose is to raise money to help children. One of Youth Helpers major projects is to send children to summer camp at Laurel Pines Camp in Big Bear California. At Laurel Pines Camp, children are introduced to nature and it’s Creator through fellowship, fun-lled recreation and spiritual teaching. Childr.
What it reported doing in 2025
To empower children for a brighter future by providing opportunities for growth and improve social skills.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.3%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $213K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.