Youthnet

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910850397
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Mount Vernon, WA, USA
Phone
3603361610
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,638,563
Expenses
$4,492,809
Assets
$3,249,891
Liabilities
$1,267,374

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WARD SPARACIO (PRESIDENT)
  • CARLA ARNOLD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (2024))
  • JONATHAN RYLAARSDAM (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(2024-2025))

Highest reported compensation

  • JONATHAN RYLAARSDAM (INTERIM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR(2024-2025)): $210,325 total reported compensation
  • CARLA ARNOLD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (2024)): $122,353 total reported compensation
  • SARA RYLAARSDAM (DIRECTOR OF ADOLESCENT PROGRAMS): $107,113 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide caring and supportive educational and social services to youth and families to help them attain a productive and successful life. Founded in 1969, the agency has grown from a single group home to multiple programs across 14 counties in northwest Washington. The agency specializes in meeting the needs of underserved at-risk youth and families. Youthnet's primary programs focus on foster care, independent living skills training and parenting education. All of youthnet's programs promote the development of client confidence and competence to promote personal resilience and self-sufficiency. Youthnet utilizes evidence based practices and the effectiveness of youthnet's approach has been independently evaluated as effective in achieving results. The agency has received repeated recognition for its outstanding services.

What it reported doing in 2024

Community and family services - youthnet provides independent and transitional living skills training/services to youth who are currently in or have been in foster care. They receive one-on-one independent living skills, training and case management services at no cost to them. All clients have individualized plans based on an assessment. Youth receive hands-on training in self-sufficiency skills such as obtaining housing, creating and managing a budget, career and education planning, engaging in safe and healthy relationships, and securing employment. While the primary goal is safe housing and financial literacy (in an effort to decrease homelessness and dependence on public resources), these youth will also be connected to service learning opportunities and receive assistance in the application process for post-secondary or vocational training.youthnet provides foster care services through the recruitment, licensing, supervision and support of foster families for children in need of safe, loving homes. We provide ongoing case management, training and respite care to our licensed families as well as to caregiving families identified by dcyf throughout the puget sound region. In cases where children cannot be reunified with their relatives, many of these homes become permanent adoptive families for the children in their care.youthnet provides in-home family services to support families referred to child protective services. We have three evidence-based parent education programs: triple p - positive parenting program, promoting first relationships, and safecare. These programs provide parent education to families at risk of losing their children to out-of-home\nplacement due to abuse, neglect or severe family conflict. It is also used to help caregivers with behavioral issues of their children to help maintain placement, and can be used to facilitate a child's return home.youthnet strives to keep children at home with their families and out of the foster care system. These family preservation programs are an important part of youthnet's support services to the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 36
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.9%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 79.8%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.46 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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: 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: 3.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 76.9% of revenue deployed · 79.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $210K · 12 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $167K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • 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.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.