Great Miami Valley Ymca
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310536719
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Hamilton, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5138870001
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $21,913,808
- Expenses
- $14,472,155
- Assets
- $43,131,130
- Liabilities
- $11,160,194
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Mike Bramer (President/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Mike Bramer (President/CEO): $232,134 total reported compensation
- Kelly Freyler (CFO): $117,804 total reported compensation
- Tyler Roberts (District Branch Executive): $111,121 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
With over 130 years of presence in the Butler County community, the GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA pledges to enhance our community by focusing on youth development, promoting healthy living, and fostering social responsibility. As an association, our dedication extends to serving all individuals irrespective of age, gender, or ability. Ensuring the safety and welfare of each individual we engage with is paramount to us. We collaborate with every individual and family to identify programs that offer the safest environment for their growth and well-being.
What it reported doing in 2025
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY- Giving back and supporting our neighbors by using our knowledge to develop stronger, more integrated communities. Giving & Volunteerism * 450 program volunteers and 89 policy volunteers dedicated their time and talents to a wide range of strategic planning, program instructing, sports coaching, and assisting at events wherever needed, led our Y with wisdom and compassion. * Charitable support and community partners are necessary to engage communities and address community needs 751 donors enabled us to raise $1,279,950 at the YMCA through individual gifts, corporate giving, foundation gifts, and United Way. Donations allow us to fulfill our mission of providing programs "for all." Community Outreach Initiatives/Collaborations * Joe Nuxhall Miracle League Fields- Through this collaboration, the Y operates adaptive baseball leagues for 240 developmentally delayed youth, ages 5-16. This league creates recreational opportunities for youth in an accepting, safe and fun environment for them to play baseball. With this program, over 200 program volunteers provided over 800 hours of service to children with physical and intellectual disabilities. * Safety Around Water-More than 330 underserved youth in the Hamilton and Middletown communities learned basic swimming skills and water safety. Youth in this free program gained a sense of accomplishment, increased self-confidence and security near the water. * Great Miami Valley YMCA are collaborating with a variety of local non-profits, in an effort to enhance the facility and programs offered at the Community Center. The BTW Community Center Collaboration includes the City of Hamilton, the Fitton Center for Creative Arts, Miami University, University of Cincinnati, and the YMCA to partner on program offerings to serve the Second Ward of Hamilton. o This collaboration provides 231 youth with programs that represent the programmatic expertise of each agency. From swim lessons to homework assistance, from art lessons to social-emotional focused activities, the size and scope of this effort is uniquely inspiring. o The YMCA was approached by the City of Hamilton in 2012 with a request that the YMCA become the lead managing entity at the Community Center. The YMCA then invited multiple community partners whose combined expertise can serve the BTW Community Center with effective programming.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $45.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.98; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.4%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.1% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $232K · 30 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $1.3M reported
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.