Eastern Carolina Young Men's Christian Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581402035
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New Bern, NC, USA
- Phone
- 2526388799
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $5,420,402
- Expenses
- $5,774,158
- Assets
- $4,000,274
- Liabilities
- $690,991
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH HARDEE (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- KELLY MILLINGTON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- KELLY MILLINGTON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $130,018 total reported compensation
- ELIZABETH HARDEE (ASSOCIATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $92,433 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. We strengthen the community by nurturing the potential of our youth, promoting healthy living for all, and fostering social responsibility.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth development: nurturing the potential of children and teens. Children from low-income families often start school unprepared. Despite progressing at the same rates as their peers during the school years, gaps widen each summer and these children fall further behind. This is known as the "achievement gap." the y's achievement gap programs are designed to support the cognitive physical and social-emotional development of youth while improving their academic outcomes via summer learning, and afterschool learning. All this while building self-confidence, self-esteem, good sportsmanship, teamwork, and fair play. Through fundraising and dedicated staff support, we awarded $141,432 in financial assistance for out-of-school programs and summer day camp. Our afterschool program had 1,481 participants for the year, while our summer day camps had 829 participants.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, 38% for grants, and 1% for affiliated organizations.
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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 86.8%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- 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: -6.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.69; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 86.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.