Zach Gordon Teenage Club Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
920014675
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Juneau, AK, USA
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$120,743
Expenses
$78,200
Assets
$144,074

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jess Brown (President)

People named in this filing

  • Jess Brown (President)
  • Kevin Ritchie (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Friends of the Zach Gordon Youth Center aims to assist Juneaus youth by offering recreation counseling food security cultural backing emergency housing and support services. A significant new initiative involves crafting Alaska Native Robes to bolster the cultural heritage of young individuals. This project receives financial backing from local tribal groups and the community. The Friends provide financial aid in running the Zach Gordon Youth Center and the Sheiyi Xaat Ht or Spruce Root House youth emergency shelter. They also gather and transfer local matching funds to the City and Borough of Juneau for the shelter and provide extra youth assistance when necessary.

What it reported doing in 2025

General support of needs not otherwise met at the youth shelter and center including things like clothing activity fees emergency transportation and housing when there are no other options. Includes reimbursement for cost of a Jesuit Volunteer youth service provider acquired by the City and Borough of Juneau.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 54
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 45.1%; rating input score 45
  • Program expense ratio: 69.7%; rating input score 70

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 35.2%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.84; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -70.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 45.1% of revenue deployed · 69.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Mission deployment rate scored 45/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.