Youth Uprising

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
203321544
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2023
Forms available
Form 990 2023
Location
Oakland, CA, USA
Phone
5107779909
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,715,378
Expenses
$3,206,885
Assets
$679,218
Liabilities
$519,984

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MEREDITH BROWN (PRESIDENT AND BOARD CHAIR)
  • QUIANA CANADA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • QUIANA CANADA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $131,040 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Transform east oakland into a healthy and economically robust community by developing the leadership of youth and young adults and improving the systems that impact them.

What it reported doing in 2023

Health & wellness: health and wellness programs provide a holistic accessible care in a community setting. Primary health and mental health services are offered onsite. Peer group session offers a variety of group sessions that give youth the opportunity to build positive relationships, and grow alongside their peers. These sessions include wellness wednesday - session for all youth healthy relationships - sessions for all youth healthing circle - session for all youthupcoming groups: young mens group young womens group counseling for healing and health yu is on the forefront of mental health care for transitional agre youth and us helping create new policies and best practices to serve traumatized and violence-exposed youth statewide. We offer youth: individal, group and family therapy clinical consultation outreach and advocacy medicatin referrals case management yus team of case managers (cms) works with members to set and and meet educational, career, and life goals. Cms serve as mentors, life coaches, and advocates and guide and track ongoing member involement. They coordinate with other systems (foster care, juvenile justice, law enforcement) to interrupt cycles of recidivism. The goal is not only engage and retain youth in yu programming, but to move them forward toward their specified goals and life plan. Holistic wellness yu offers weekly alternative health clinics. Yu provides non-western healing arts, stress management and preventative health service. Yoga meditation double dutch physical healthin partnersip with childrens hospital oakland, yu brings adolescent healh care to a neighborhood where none previously existed. The clinic provides preventative and urgent care services, including physicals and immunizations treatment for acute and chronic illness testing for sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy counseling to support youth struggling with sex-and sexuality-related issues preventive heath screening for asthma, diabetes and hypertension.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 87% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 72
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 62.1%; rating input score 62
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,356.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -18.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.21; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.77; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -13% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 62.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2023
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • 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 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.