Athens-McMinn Family YMCA
Legal name: Athens-mcminn Family Young Men's Christian Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620586361
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Athens, TN, United States
- Phone
- (423) 745-4904
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,232,266
- Expenses
- $2,004,945
- Assets
- $3,982,576
- Liabilities
- $107,802
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EMILY AZIZ (PRESIDENT)
- BRADI SEWELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BRADI SEWELL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO): $90,734 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
When you give back and support the Y, you continue to strengthen the foundation of our community. As the nation's leading non-profit for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, the Y uses your gift to make a meaningful, enduring impact right in your neighborhood. Mission Statement Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. _The Athens-McMinn Family YMCA has a zero tolerance standard for abuse and inappropriate behavior by staff, members, and volunteers._ Mission Statement Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide youth & adult activities that build a christian society through the improvement of thephysical, moral, and religious conditions of participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $65.42 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 84.2% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $91K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.