Youth with a Vision

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841471147
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Denver, CO, USA
Phone
3036697593
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$161,650
Expenses
$151,852
Assets
$48,033
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Benjamin Valdez (Board Member)
  • Nicolas Pitones (Treasurer)
  • Felicia Valdez (Secretary)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To increase the educational, economical, and social accomplishments for at risk youth through vocational handyman training projects, home school liaison, and on the job training. Handyman training is also provided to occupants of a local mobile home park where residents are taught the skills required to maintain their own mobile homes.

What it reported doing in 2025

Vocational Handyman Project. We have trained 35 youth in the following skills: How to use hand and power tools. Basics skills in plumbing, painting, drywall, patch, flooring, carpentry, and sprinkler repairs. We also took on a mobile home project, teaching residents general repairs skills. The greatest need was showing the residents how to maintain their plumbing, winter preparation, caulking windows, sealing drafty entrance doors and insulating them. 55 residents received training

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 - 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: 49
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.8%; rating input score 48
  • Program expense ratio: 50.9%; rating input score 51

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 6.1%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.8% of revenue deployed · 50.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $77K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 51/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 47/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.