Forest City Family Ymca

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
421257332
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Forest City, IA, USA
Phone
6415855220
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,422,539
Expenses
$1,515,563
Assets
$3,884,680
Liabilities
$71,703

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CINDY ROSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - PART YEAR)
  • SYDNEY DONADIO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • CINDY ROSA (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - PART YEAR): $61,501 total reported compensation
  • SYDNEY DONADIO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $29,693 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every person. The forest city family ymca puts christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. The forest city family ymca provides programs, activities, facilities, and equipment for all people. The ymca welcomes everyone regardless of age, race, sex, ethnicity, ability, or religion. Membership dues are based on community affordability and financial assistance is available for those who cannot afford to pay the full cost of membership. We accomplish our mission everyday by offering programs that help to develop the characteristics of caring, responsibility, honesty, and respect. We do this by having y staff members model and demonstrate these core values in their interactions with all participants. We are a volunteer-directed organization and as such no individual profits monetarily because of our operations.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth development - our ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen. We believe all kids have great potential and deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. That is why we help young people cultivate the values, skills and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, better health and education achievement. Our ymca programs, such as youth sports and child care, offer a range of experiences that enrich social-emotional, cognitive and physical growth. Expenses include subsidies and direct financial assistance that make participation possible for 12 percent of the young people we engage. Social responsibility - our ymca believes in giving back and supporting our neighbors. We have been listening and responding to our community's most critical social needs for more than 30 years. Our child care program has grown in the past couple of years in response to community need. We offer three sites for infants through upper elementaryaged youth. Our newly developed steams (science, technology, engineering, arts, math and skilled labor) programming continues to provide opportunities for all middle-school-aged youth to explore new and creative programs. The y believes all youth should have some sort of water safety as a safety measure, but also because swimming is a life long skill.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 72% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

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: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89.7%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 81.1%; rating input score 81
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd 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; 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: -6.5%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.56; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89.7% of revenue deployed · 81.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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 17/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.