Newton YMCA
Legal name: Newton Young Mens Christian Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 420703250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Newton, IA, USA
- Phone
- 6417924006
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,106,995
- Expenses
- $3,309,924
- Assets
- $15,973,297
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEORGE SORENSEN (CEO)
- SHAD MARVELLI (Vice President)
- TROY GARTON (President)
Highest reported compensation
- GEORGE SORENSEN (CEO): $117,234 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 Newton YMCA is a leading nonprofit in Jasper County committed to strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. Why do we do these things? As an organization we believe a strong community can only be achieved when we invest in our kids, our health and our neighbors. We hope that you'll join us in our mission to serve all through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, and help us make Jasper County home of happier, healthier communities for all its residents. Giving back and providing support to our neighbors ::** We know that when we work together, we move individuals, families and communities forward. Since 1844, the Y has responded to society’s most pressing needs by developing innovative, community-based solutions and uniting people from all walks of life to participate in and.
What it reported doing in 2025
Membership: open to all, and led by qualified and experienced directors, membership activities fall into four basic categories: health and fitness, aquatics, youth and adult sports, and arts and crafts. Many take place in a state-of-the-art fitness center and cardio theater and are free to members but available to non-members at a nominal fee. Scholarships are available to those in the community unable to purchase memberships on their own. Health benefits and worthwhile leisure activities are of primary importance to the community. There are racquetball and handball courts, weight rooms, youth game room, indoor walking-jogging track, kids family gym, two gyms, and spinning bicycles. The ymca has the only area large indoor pool and shares the facility with the high school. There are gymnastics and dance programs. Youth in aquatic and sports programs compete with other ymcas. All these improve physical skills, enhance self concept. Build leadership skills, help members get along with others, and lead healthier, happier lives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% 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.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: -6.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.83; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $117K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.