Youthbridge Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 436064111
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Saint Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3149856778
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Residential Care & Adult Day Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,240,983
- Expenses
- $21,848,076
- Assets
- $105,238,300
- Liabilities
- $5,072,089
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA CARSWELL (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BARBARA CARSWELL (CEO): $241,700 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Youthbridge community foundation partners with donors to help charities in the st. Louis region, especially those focused on children, through leadership, grants and donor services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Includes all aspects of work dedicated to building strong, vibrant communities by bridging the resources of donors with the needs of nonprofit organizations. Our capacity building and philanthropy initiatives help nonprofit organizations, especially those focused on serving children and youth, become stronger. These initiatives include but are not limited to technical assistance, capacity building grants & programs, endowment building & administration, philanthropy assistance and training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 94% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Fundraising efficiency: $26.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.4%; rating input score 99; 33rd 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -94.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.82; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 26% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 96.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 16 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 36 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 136 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 134 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.