Youthlead Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 200796386
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2016–2018
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015, Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Boston, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7817840651
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $32,510
- Expenses
- $47,798
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RAJ SHARMA (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- ASHUTOSH RAO (DIRECTOR)
- RAJ SHARMA (PRESIDENT)
- RAVI KACKER (TREASURER)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire and mobilize youth leaders to reflect upon their values and beliefs and then connect with others across differences and act together to address local and global change. Youthlead's vision is a world where high school and college students have the courage and conviction to understand people who hold profoundly different beliefs and the desire to work with them, across differences of identity, to strenghten the fabric of our pluralistic, democratic society.
What it reported doing in 2018
Youthlead, inc. WORKs WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO RECEIVE DIALOGUE AND LEADERSHIP TRAINING SO THAT THEY CAN CONDUCT THEIR OWN PROGRAMS AND WORKSHOPS. the programs and workshops would PROMOTE RESPECT AND COOPERATION FOR LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL communities. Effective June 30,2019 the organization merged into Emerson College.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 13
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -47%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -33.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2018
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.