Butler County Family Ymca

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
250965619
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Butler, PA, USA
Phone
7242874733
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$10,240,155
Expenses
$11,169,363
Assets
$18,258,901
Liabilities
$10,311,615

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVE HILLIARD (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • CARRIE FOX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
  • TOM SPENCE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DAVE HILLIARD (PRESIDENT & CEO): $163,651 total reported compensation
  • CARRIE FOX (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $102,113 total reported compensation
  • TOM SPENCE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $88,269 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The butler county family ymca is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization that offers health, educational, and social services through programs, events, and community collaborations. See full description in schedule o

What it reported doing in 2025

Healthy livingwell-being means healthy spirit, mind, and body. Ymca health enhancement promotes the value of disease prevention through good physical activity habits and health including nutrition, stress management, and health education. Programs included in health enhancement are as follows: group fitness | land or water, cardiovascular or strength these programs offer instruction for all levels of conditioning. Our ymcas currently offer 171 different classes per week, targeting healthy youth, adults, and seniors.small group training classes these classes offer more advanced instruction for participants to receive more individual training. Our ymcas currently offer 19 different classes a session with participation over 292.butler road race - 426 individuals participated in 2025.turkey trot is an annual 5k run. In 2025, 154 individuals participated.adult sport leagues adult women and men participate in sport leagues, basketball, volleyball, martial arts, and pickle ball. 573 participants benefited from socialization, fitness and friendly competition in 2025.adult activities helps members meet individual goals, personal or physician-recommended. Total participation was 2,500+ in 2025. Services offered are as follows: fitness assessments, community health talks, cpr/aed and first aid, blood pressure screening, unicycle club, personal training sessions, and adult social clubs. Room and facility usethe ymca has in the past and will continue to provide space for community special interest groups to have meetings. The ymca provides space free of charge for those groups who are not able to pay a room use fee. In 2025, groups such as boy scouts and girls scouts of america, brenckle's organic farm & greenhouse, butler am rotary, butler downtown, butler county leadership program, butler kennel club, butler outdoor club, center for community resources (ccr), central blood bank, community life church, connecting2tomorrow, cranberry township rotary club, discover hope, ellen o'brien gaiser center, grace community church, lifesteps, mental health/mental retardation, mom's clubs of cranberry township, north country trail association, parkinson's support group, spina bifida association of western pa, toastmasters, us armed forces recruits, wisr, young life, all met at the ymcas at no cost. The value of this free service in 2025 was over $13,500.population served informationthroughout the year, we had over 474,000 unique visits by over 14,800 individuals at our ymca facilities. The annual support campaign provided assistance to over 140 units valued at over $50,000 for memberships and programs, ensuring that everyone can be a part of the ymca. Youth mentoringreach & rise is a national ymca program designed to build a better future for youth by helping them reach their full potential through the support of trained, caring adults. This national ymca evidence-based youth mentoring program is backed by published research leading to specific guidelines that ensure the success of the program. Reach & rise group mentoring supports youth ages six through seventeen. After completing fifteen hours of training and obtaining background clearances, mentors are able provide group-based experiences that create safe, healthy, meaningful, positive, and consistent relationships. Our group mentoring program matches up to six youth of similar age with two trained adult volunteers. Each group can be formed by age, goals they would like to work toward (like gaining social skills or managing anger), by geographic area, or in other ways that will benefit children in the group. Data-driven results include improvement of each mentee's self-esteem, decision-making skills, school performance and personal relationships. In 2025 we served 42 youth and their families in mentoring small groups throughout the year. This program is funded entirely through our annual support campaign and there is no cost at all to the families.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 90% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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 assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 27
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 82
  • Fundraising efficiency: $35.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 64th 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: -9.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.56; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.5% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $9.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $164K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1.2M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.