Youthpower365

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
841442909
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Avon, CO, USA
Phone
9707772015
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$6,649,149
Expenses
$6,584,016
Assets
$6,268,825
Liabilities
$977,484

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

Leadership & pay

46 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHAEL IMHOF (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
  • SARA AMBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MICHAEL IMHOF (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $414,730 total reported compensation
  • JOSHUA CLOUD (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $292,799 total reported compensation
  • SARA AMBERG (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $213,176 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To prepare children in need for success in life through education and recreational opportunities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Afterschool programming k-8: pwrhrs consists of highly effective, quality out-of-school time opportunities that utilize a four-prong holistic approach spanning academics, physical activity, mentoring, and social-emotional skill development. Pwrhrs also exposes students to enrichments that their families might not be able to afford or access. Middle school clubs expose young people to experiences that build skills, resilience, and trusted adult relationships. The club (community lifting up boys), girl powher, culinary club, along with more than 10 student interest-based opportunities, enhance the lives of students throughout the school year. Middle school soccer teaches different aspects of the game technical, tactical, physical, and psychosocial. With academic requirements, the afterschool program encourages school engagement and goal attainment while connecting students to trusted adult relationships.summer programsyouthpower365 provides a variety of camps in the summer. This includes: - a three to four-week camp for k-5th grades reduces the summer academic slide through project-based learning and intend to increase social-emotional skills through enrichment. This camp is themed each year. - multiple one-week 6th-8th grade camps focus on experiential learning through activities and experiences while providing mentorship and trusted adult relationships. - copa soccer, a tournament style sports camp, that runs for eight-weeks for children preschool to 12th grade.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 70% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 84% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.7%; rating input score 69
  • Program expense ratio: 69.4%; rating input score 69
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.2%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 97.7%; rating input score 98; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.7% of revenue deployed · 69.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 43 of 44 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $415K · 46 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $327K reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 37/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.