Youth Impact Program Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
300508140
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Phone
7032990060
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$275,838
Expenses
$275,826
Assets
$52,364
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RIKI ELLISON (CEO/PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • RIKI ELLISON (CEO/PRESIDENT)
  • DAVID HALVERSON (DIRECTOR)
  • ROBIN FORTNER (TREASURER)

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 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The youth impact program strives to provide innovative educational access, academic instruction, and strong mentoring relationships to at-risk youth across the country, using football as an incentive to encourage personal growth. By targeting adolescents from underserved communities and immersing them in a collegiate athlete experience complete with ncaa student athletes as role models, yip works to inspire young people to garner sucesses in and out of the classroom. Connecting top universities, nfl teams, and local sponsors with inner city middle school students, yip sits in a unique position in the world of sport-for-development and will continue to leverage the programs strengths until we have positively impacted the at-risk youth of every major metrpolitan area in the country.

What it reported doing in 2023

The youth impact program is an innovative program that acts as a catalyst to promote positive development, and encourage an interest in stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields in low-income, urban-based, at-risk middle school males. Based in the community, yip builds resiliency by providing minority at-risk boys with a free summer stem based academic and football training camp program that promotes character development, enhancement of academic skills, and social interaction activities. This year the yip program served young men between the ages of 10 and 14. All boys (100%) were members of ethnic or racial minorities. The yip program operates with support from the national football league (nfl) and is currently run in partnership with three key university partners: northwestern university, university of Michigan and the united states military academy (west point), during the summer of 2015.overall, the boys showed great growth during the program; moreover, these gains were statistically documented and verified in ongoing yip evaluation efforts. Highlights of this year's impact include:* the largest ever improvements in mathematic test scores;* the largest ever improvements in language arts skills;* academically, overall this group of boys is now three to five months ahead of peers who did not participate in a reading or other educational program;* a significant number of veteran boys who have attended the camp more than once continue to demonstrate that the yip program impacts last more than one year;* parental reported improvements in attitude, goals, and efforts in school;* parental reported improvements in parental and child relationships;* parental reported decreases in negative behaviors over the summer.yip has clearly made a significant impact to the lives of boys who need a chance at a better life. We are also extremely pleased by this year's media coverage as well as continued strong congressional support for the program.

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

STRONG - 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: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 99%; rating input score 99
  • Program expense ratio: 98.4%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

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: 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: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • 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: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.19; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -16.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 99% of revenue deployed · 98.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $272K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2023
  • 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.

  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.