Youthworks
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 850480524
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Santa Fe, NM, USA
- Phone
- 5056908918
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,747,430
- Expenses
- $2,066,393
- Assets
- $2,120,622
- Liabilities
- $1,093,024
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VICKI GAGE (PRESIDENT)
- LUCY RIVER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MELYNN SCHUYLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- MELYNN SCHUYLER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $120,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Serves disadvantaged and at-risk youth in santa fe and northern nm. Specializes in a full spectrum of culturally appropriate programs to assist predominantly hispanic and native american high-risk youth to develop job skills and gain education and workforce crentatials through training and wrap-around support.
What it reported doing in 2024
City of santa fe affordable housing trust fund: the city of santa fe's affordable housing trust fund works proactively with the public, nonprofit, and private sectors to increase affordable housing opportunities for santa fe's low- and moderate-income residents, addressing the needs of all residents from the homeless to the renter, provides rental voucher assistance, utility bill assistance and eviction prevnetion funds assistance. Youthworks is an ahtf recipient and distributes specific asset funds to citizens who can prove the need for assistance in order to avoid homelessness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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 and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 53
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.4%; rating input score 53
- Program expense ratio: 71%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.03; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.52; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 53.4% of revenue deployed · 71% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 8 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $120K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 53/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.