Youth Voice Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
922222045
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Abilene, TX, USA
Phone
3252752250
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$630,542
Expenses
$753,698
Assets
$1,501,801
Liabilities
$367,369

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Ben Siburt (Executive Director)

Highest reported compensation

  • Ben Siburt (Executive Director): $92,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Youth Voice works to ensure teenagers receive basic needs, engage a positive path forward, and experience hope. Youth Voice operates a drop-in center to provide a safe and consistent place of belonging for housing and food insecure teenagers.

What it reported doing in 2024

During 2024, Youth Voice served approximately 175 teenagers experiencing housing or food insecurity. The Drop-in Center was open three days each week to offer dinner, snacks, care packs, hygiene items, and shower and laundry facilities. Youth Voice staff and volunteers provided homework support and loving accountability for teenagers to encourage making school a priority. Teenagers engaged in nightly programming, including art workshops and other fun activities, in addition to talks about topics such as healthy relationships, substance abuse, nutrition, and other life 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.
  • 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.7%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 79.3%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $13.48 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st 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: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 24th 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: Pass
    • 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: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -19.5%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 40.1% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -95.7% per year; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.7% of revenue deployed · 79.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 26 of 28 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.