Boys and Girls Clubs of York County
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 570951118
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Rock Hill, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8033247920
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Centers, Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,408,795
- Expenses
- $4,806,296
- Assets
- $308,740
- Liabilities
- $918,925
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- James Ford (Executive Dir.): $87,513 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide a world-class experience that assures success is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship; and living a health lifestyle.
What it reported doing in 2024
Boys & Girls Club of York County (BGCYC) provides critical after-school, out-of-school and summer camp programming for children and teens in York County and Chester County in SC. During the 2019-20 FY, BGCYC served over 1,000 members in 9 club locations. Our clubs are Nortside Elementary Club, Fort Mill Elementary Club, Rock Hill Teen Center, Jefferson Elementary Club, Harold C Johnson Elementary Club, Cotton Belt Elementary Club, York Intermediate Club, Hickory-Grove Sharon Club and 3 Be Great Academy programs in Chester County. As part of a nationwide network of over 4,000 clubs, we are established as a leading advocate for youth in our area. Club programs ensure that children have access daily to a safe place after school and during the summer, preventing them from being unsupervised, unguided and unsafe. Club members build knowledge, skills and behaviors to put them on the path to a great future.During our afterschool program, all of our club members participate in a nationally recognize program called Power Hour, dedicating one full hour of homework help and tutoring. Power Hour: making minutes count helps club members ages 6-18 achieve academic success by providing homework help, tutoring and high-yield learning activities and encouraging members to become self-directed learners. Everyday our kids come to club and the first thing they do is homework. We have seen remarkable grade improvement with this activity.Triple Play - Mind - The mind component of Triple Play helps club members develop a knowledge base to acquire healthy habits, such as making smart food choices, understanding appropriate portion sizes and creating fun and balanced meals.BodyThe body component of Triple Play encourages young people to be physically active through fun daily fitness, including games and activities to get them moving. Daily fitness challenges give youth of every age a chance to play longer and harder at a variety of games. SoulThe soul component of Triple Play provides social recreation programs and activities that strengthen interpersonal skills, foster good character and develop positive relationships and cooperation among young people. Club Youth acquire a healthy self-concept and belief in their self-worth, and cope well with positive and adverse situations.Program DevelopmentTriple Play was created by a team of experts at Boys & Girls Clubs of America, with advice and counsel from leading health, medical, nutrition and fitness experts. The program's nutrition component was developed with the Department of Health & Human Services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 16
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $63.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.98; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.3% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 14 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.