Boys & Girls Clubs of the Fox Valley

Legal name: Boys & Girls Club Fox Valley Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391225709
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Appleton, WI, USA
Phone
9207310555
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,951,075
Expenses
$16,130,981
Assets
$33,444,543
Liabilities
$1,729,507

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

30 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVE LAMBERT (PAST PRESIDENT)
  • COURTNEY WEILAND (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TIM KIPPENHAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • LANCE CRANE LEFT IN 2024 (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • TODD THIEL (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • GREG LEMKE-ROCHON (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • GREG LEMKE-ROCHON (CEO): $234,898 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 serve all young people, especially those with unmet needs.

What it reported doing in 2024

The bgcfv's truancy reduction and assessment center (trac) served 275 students in 2024 through 1945 individual meetings. In sy 23-24, 90% of truant youth surveyed reported that trac helped them progress toward their goals while 95% students reported that their case manager connected them with additional resources to reach goals. Youth served were students in the appleton, little chute, and shiocton school districts.the bgcfv's center for grieving children provided compassionate peer support services at no cost to 475 children, teens and family members in 2024. 95% of clients surveyed (from our school and famiy night support groups) report that they had a better understanding of their feelings around grief. 97% of clients surveyed were satisfied with services through cgc. The bgcfv's homebase program reached 1,998 youth via outreach, 3,116 youth with prevention and awareness education via 93 presentations in area schools, 50 hotline connections serving 48 different youth/families, 398 youth received care packages, and 73 youth received one-on-one case management services, with 353 individual face-to-face appointments.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 81
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 54.6%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: $73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 98.8%; rating input score 99; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • 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: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 40.1%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.5%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 54.6% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 27 of 27 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $235K · 30 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $2M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.