Keene Family YMCA
Legal name: Keene Young Men's Christian Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 020222247
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Keene, NH, USA
- Phone
- 6033526002
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,352,758
- Expenses
- $6,421,370
- Assets
- $19,877,676
- Liabilities
- $3,780,470
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Elana Baron (Board President)
- Linda ODonnell (Vice President)
- Christy Sterbenz Filby (CEO)
- Helene Mogridge (Interim CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Christy Sterbenz Filby (CEO): $96,048 total reported compensation
- Helene Mogridge (Interim CEO): $40,783 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 Keene Family YMCA is a leading nonprofit dedicated to strengthening community through programs and services that build spirit, mind and body. The Y has been listening and responding to our community’s most critical social needs since 1885. Through the Y, volunteers, donors, leaders, and partners across the Monadnock Region are empowering the community to be inclusive, confident, connected and secure. Our Mission We serve all people through programs and services that build spirit, mind and body with a focus on Youth Development, Healthy Living, and Social Responsibility. We serve all people through programs and services that build spirit, mind and body with a focus on Youth Development, Healthy Living, and Social Responsibility. Our Cause.
What it reported doing in 2025
Social Responsibility: At the Keene Family YMCA, we believe in giving back and providing support to our neighbors. We have been listening and responding to our communities' most critical social needs since 1885. The Keene Family YMCA volunteers and donors, leaders and partners across the Monadnock region are empowering the community to be inclusive, confident, connected and secure. Volunteerism & giving: we encourage volunteerism as a foundation of the work we do. The Y empowers our community by inspiring members and citizens to donate and take volunteer leadership roles in annual giving. The Keene Family YMCA makes every attempt to provide membership for all. We do this through the support of neighbors and volunteers, by raising funds for our annual campaign. In this way, we bring people together from all walks of life to help those most in need in the Monadnock region. Advocacy: we understand that advocacy and policy is the key to addressing the socio-economic challenges in our community. We take a leadership role in leading change with our local and statewide partners including the New Hampshire YMCA Alliance. We offer free education, awareness and training opportunities to address the challenges identified by our community. These collaborative events are open to the public and in partnership with local and statewide organizations. In 2025, the Keene family YMCA provided $284,397 in financial assistance to over 800 individuals to participate in Youth Development & Healthy Living programming & services to those who otherwise would have faced economic barriers to participation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 88% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.1%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 77.6%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.13 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 63rd 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: -1.1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.1; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.1% of revenue deployed · 77.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $96K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 47 of 47 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.