Oklahoma Alliance of Ymcas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 820930893
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Oklahoma City, OK, USA
- Phone
- 4052977720
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,503,512
- Expenses
- $8,567,854
- Assets
- $543,094
- Liabilities
- $73,452
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN SUE WHITE (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN SUE WHITE (CEO): $158,298 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See schedule o
What it reported doing in 2025
The Oklahoma alliance of ymcas provides a unified and amplified voice of advocacy for youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. The Oklahoma alliance of ymcas continues to monitor healthy living and youth development policy across the nation, state, and in local communities for best practices and policies. The Oklahoma alliance of ymcas identified and promoted various youth development and healthy living programs, such as Oklahoma state department of education summer youth development, chronic disease prevention and support services, out-of-school time feeding programs, healthy policies within childcare facilities and walkable communities. The objective of this work is to support local ymca efforts to build stronger, healthier, and more viable communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 95% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.7%; rating input score 99
- Program expense ratio: 97.9%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $160.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 49th 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: 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: -0.8%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 55.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 50.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98.7% of revenue deployed · 97.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $158K · 9 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 9 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.