Pickens County Ymca

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
570405623
IRS 990 coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Easley, SC, USA
Phone
8643064388
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,547,021
Expenses
$9,331,893
Assets
$37,506,291
Liabilities
$26,397,598

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

Leadership & pay

17 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SID COLLINS (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • SID COLLINS (CEO): $183,942 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 pickens county ymca is a charitable, community service organization that serves men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. We are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. Through membership, programs and services, our ymca nurtures the potential of children and teens, promotes healthy living for all, and fosters social responsibility. We want to ensure that the ymca is available to all, regardless of their ability to pay. In 2025, we provided 310,073 in financial assistance, ensuring children, families, and individuals had a safe and healthy place to grow, thrive and belong. Financial assistance is provided for all types of memberships and ymca programs, including afterschool, summer camp, swim lessons, youth sports and wellness programs. In total, we were able to assist 2,000 individual residents of our community with scholarships. In addition to providing scholarships for fee-based programs and services, the y

What it reported doing in 2025

Wellness: one of our primary purposes is to provide the community with healthy living awarness. We accomplish this through memberships, various programs, personal training and educational resources. Child care: the pickens county ymca is the largest child carre provider in the area. With approximately 1,036 children in our y's afterschool program, and the 923 children in the summer camp we make we make a huge impact on a large number of children. Motto- our summer camp program provides a positive and safe enviroment for the children in our community where they can enjoy a summer full of acheivement, relationships, and belongings. Each child participates in new experiences through camper choice, weekley themed activities, field trips, devotions, and character development. Aquatics and sports: many children and familys are looking for recreational activities outside of the school day. The ymca provides opportunities such as soccer, baseball, volleyball, swim team, group and private swim lessons. All programs have an emphasis on the values of the ymca. We are committed to improve the mind, body and spirit of each person we serve.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 81% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85%; rating input score 85
  • Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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: 2.3%; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.02; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 85% of revenue deployed · 86.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $184K · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 34/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.