Youth with a Mission

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
521360030
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2015
Forms available
Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2009
Location
Henrico, VA, USA
Phone
8042368898
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Youth Development – Religious Leadership

Reported finances

Revenue
$774,708
Expenses
$803,699
Assets
$1,005,445
Liabilities
$31,768

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER A ZINCHUCK (President)
  • DALE MAST (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASEN L GLASBRENNER (Treasurer): $22,225 total reported compensation
  • CHRISTOPHER A ZINCHUCK (President): $14,000 total reported compensation
  • KARA H ZINCHUCK (Secretary): $14,000 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Religious, charitable, and educational

What it reported doing in 2015

Ywam-va's service accomplishments include: the discipleship training school trains and sends numerous young missionaries into service and evangelism in the us and internationally. They each participate in 12 weeks of live-learn discipleship and eight to 12 weeks of outreach. The english language and culture school trains numerous students in the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels of english. The students are involved in bible teaching and live-learn discipleship throughout the school. The richmond ropes challenge course facilitates hundreds of people in events on the course and off-site. They lead participants in leadership and teamwork development using biblical principles and experiential learning. Through grants and scholarships, ywam-va supports other organizations and individuals with similar missions and values.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 61% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 42
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.1%; rating input score 87
  • Program expense ratio: 83.9%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $19.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 50%; rating input score 50; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Fail
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -3.7%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 87.1% of revenue deployed · 83.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $674K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $22K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2012 to 2015
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.