nonprofit youth-development federation
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Industry Education
A nonprofit youth-development federation supporting local clubs with after-school, summer, leadership, education, health, arts, and workforce programs. Boys & Girls Clubs scores well because it provides structured youth support and safe spaces, though federated quality variation and youth-institution power require caution.
Why this matters: Boys & Girls Clubs is a strong positive comparator in a category where youth capture is otherwise common.
Letter grade A Good Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
A - Good
The score turns mainly on Extraction, with the largest penalty coming from Youth Capture.
Strengths
- Extraction7/10
- Solidarity with the Unemployed7/7
- Ownership6/10
Penalties
- Youth Capture-1
- Identity Capture-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims15
- Direct axis claims15
- Coverage15/15
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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6 / 10 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the education category. Linked evidence
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Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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6 / 10 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record indicates whether binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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7 / 10 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's model determines whether money flows primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
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4 / 7 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's linked public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the institution. Linked evidence
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Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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7 / 7 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America operates in an everyday-need category where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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5 / 7 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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5 / 5 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's core service has practical everyday utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality, data handling, and accountability. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility customers, or communities. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Youth Capture
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Manipulative youth-directed marketing, youth-data or attention
monetization, collectible/add-on traps, parasocial or identity capture,
surprise mechanics, or treating young people as lower-disclosure
consumers. Making useful toys or welcoming children is not itself
penalized. Range: -5 to 0.
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-1 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Youth Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-1 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Identity Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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1 / 3 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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1 / 3 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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1 / 3 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Cost Transparency
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Credit for clear posted prices, all-in fees, unit costs, public rate
cards, margin/cost visibility, or surplus-allocation transparency,
especially in markets where opaque quotes, hidden fees, or
individualized pricing are normal.
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1 / 3 |
Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 79/100
15 verified linked claims 15 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 15/15 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 16/20
15 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
15 direct claims across 15 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 10/10
15/15 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the education category.
- Boys & Girls Clubs programsGeneral web source · 58%
2Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record indicates whether binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers.
- Boys & Girls Clubs programsGeneral web source · 58%
3Boys & Girls Clubs of America's model determines whether money flows primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery.
- Boys & Girls Clubs programsGeneral web source · 58%
4Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the institution.
- Boys & Girls Clubs programsGeneral web source · 58%
5Boys & Girls Clubs of America operates in an everyday-need category where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
6Boys & Girls Clubs of America's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.
- Boys & Girls Clubs programsGeneral web source · 58%
7Boys & Girls Clubs of America operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
8Boys & Girls Clubs of America's core service has practical everyday utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality, data handling, and accountability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs programsGeneral web source · 58%
9Boys & Girls Clubs of America's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility customers, or communities.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
10Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
11Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
12Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
13Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Cost Transparency relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
14Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Youth Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
15Boys & Girls Clubs of America's public record makes Identity Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Boys & Girls Clubs all programsGeneral web source · 58%
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