Idaho Youth Ranch Inc

“The board advancement committee has identified focus areas for board recruitment. The board and executive staff are encouraged to nominate potential candidates. Candidates are vetted by the board advancement committee who makes recommendations to the full board of new board members. The full board votes to accept/disallow the recommendation of the committee.”

“A draft of the 990 is provided to management and the finance committee, and the board for review and approval prior to filing with the irs.”

“All directors, officers, trustees, key employees and other interested persons must update a disclosure form at least annually. Each shall annually sign a statement which affirms such person has received a copy of the conflict of interest policy and read, understood, and complied with it. When a potential conflict is identified, the remaining independent persons shall decide, after reviewing all material facts, if a conflict of interest exists and the appropriate actions are necessary.”

“The board of directors annually evaluates the performance of the ceo in a closed board meeting. At that time they use professionally published salary surveys as well as salary information gathered from local non-profits of similar size to assess the reasonableness of the compensation for that individual. The last performance review occurred at the august 2025 board meeting, and final compensation is scheduled to be reviewed at the november 2025 meeting. The last complete review and approval of the ceo's compensation occurred at the august 2024 board meeting. The process described here was last completed in 2024.”

“Idaho youth ranch financial statements are available on our website. All other documents are available upon request”

“Social enterprise: idaho youth ranch (iyr) owns and operates 24 thrift stores, online book and collectible divisions, and a vehicle sales lot. These locations sell and/or recycle clothing, vehicles and other non-cash goods donated by the public to fund therapeutic programs for vulnerable idaho youth and their families. Iyr social enterprise locations provide jobs, benefits and career paths for over 400 employees. Stores serve as job training sites for iyr's youthworks! Program. Stores include a ranch readers program, which has given over 600,000 free books and incentives for reading them to idaho children. Iyr social enterprise recycles donated goods that cannot be sold, helping reduce the volume of waste entering public landfills in idaho's communities.”

“Hays house: iyr operates a residential facility that houses youth between the ages of 8 and 18 who are vulnerable due to abuse, neglect, family conflict, and/or abandonment; or youth who are struggling with dangerous behavior, or conflicts at school or home. Services are tailored to meet each child's unique situation and may include animal assisted therapy, behavioral therapy, service learning, educational recovery, and life skill development. Reintegration services and ongoing access to therapy are a key part of finishing the job as youth are brought back into their homes. Psychiatric residential treatment facility: nestled in the beautiful 258-acre hands of promise campus in rural treasure valley, our state-of-the-art facility offers individualized care, education, and healing. The idaho youth ranch residential center for healing & resilience provides long-term psychiatric care to youth ages 11-17 in a unique environment carefully designed for a therapeutic experience. We provide a safe, supportive trauma-informed environment, mental and emotional development tailored to each youth, family involvement throughout the healing process for preparedness and long-term success, and aftercare support and resources when youth returns home.”

“Community services: iyr provides youth and family therapy in both north idaho and in southwest idaho and teleheath mental health services statewide. Idaho youth ranch's therapy is targeted at idaho's most vulnerable youth and uses leading therapeutic practices to provide them the healing & hope the need. Blending proven evidence-based therapies; trauma focused - cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, and equine assisted therapy, idaho youth ranch provides a treatment model unlike others, proven to heal youth who struggle with acute, chronic, and complex trauma. Iyr's adoption services program in northern idaho offers a full range of services including placement of infants, special-needs adoption, home studies and post-placement supervision, international and interstate adoption, and non-agency adoption. Since 1983, iyr has practiced an ""open adoption"" philosophy, helping facilitate collaboration and cooperation between birth parents and adoptive parents over the child's lifetime, to the greatest extent possible.”

“The organization did not change its audit selection or oversight processes during the year.”