Youth Will
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 991547983
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- San Diego, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6193568056
- Rating
- 48
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $112,609
- Expenses
- $94,027
- Assets
- $27,825
- Liabilities
- $8,245
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Margie de Ruyter (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Margie de Ruyter (CEO)
- Ashley Rodriguez (CFO, Secretury)
- Claire Snyder (Executive Dir.)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's mission is to empower youth through activism, governmental advocacy, and leadership.
What it reported doing in 2024
Youth Will facilitated a wide range of programs focused on youth empowerment, climate justice, and community advocacy during this reporting period. Through its Youth Power Cooperatives, Youth Will created consistent spaces for young people to connect, build community, and support each other in their social justice journeys. These gatherings emphasized personal and professional development, community issues, and peer-to-peer support.The organization also hosted several community-based events aimed at educating and mobilizing youth around environmental justice. One creative event combined pot painting and plant building to highlight the importance of community gardens, sustainability, and the mental health benefits of outdoor activities. Another workshop addressed the emotional toll of climate change, helping youth process climate anxiety and transform it into meaningful advocacy. These efforts were especially vital in the wake of environmental disasters that disproportionately impacted underserved communities.Youth Will continued to invest in youth-led advocacy through trainings and direct civic engagement. Youth participants were prepared to speak at city council meetings, where they advocated for more equitable city budgets. A countywide series of youth focus groups also helped uncover urgent issues such as housing insecurity, lack of mental health resources, and gaps in services for disconnected youth. These listening sessions deepened the organizations understanding of the lived experiences of young people, especially those in underserved areas.The Climate Justice Action Team remained a cornerstone of Youth Wills programming, convening regularly to address the Tijuana River Valley Crisis. Youth were equipped with tools to analyze the environmental, health, and equity impacts of sewage pollution, and later presented their findings and demands to elected officials. This work extended into a policy workshop where youth collaborated with experts and decision-makers to identify legislative solutions. Youth also participated in a community clean-up in Mt. Hope, a historically underserved neighborhood, reinforcing their ability to lead change on the ground.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 27
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 25.5%; rating input score 25
- Program expense ratio: 30.5%; rating input score 30
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.5%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 40.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 25.5% of revenue deployed · 30.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $29K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 15/100.