Raritan Valley YMCA
Legal name: Raritan Valley Young Mens Christian Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 221494457
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- East Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 732-257-4114
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,346,796
- Expenses
- $2,821,206
- Assets
- $8,775,918
- Liabilities
- $1,651,407
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANDREW THOR EKLUND (VICE PRESIDENT)
- DR ARTHUR LEWIN (PRESIDENT)
- GINA STRAVIC (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- GINA STRAVIC (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $159,517 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. We believe everyone deserves opportunities, no matter who you are, or where you're from. Our Y is a place for anyone who needs us. Please support us now and in the future by donating. Your donation will help us: Support our scholarship fund, providing summer camp scholarships to kids in need. Coordinate a State food distribution program. Provide free online and in-person health/wellness education and programming. Provide support, education and mentoring to our childcare kids. We can't do this without you. Give today **For A Better Us**.
What it reported doing in 2025
Social responsibility: at the y, strengthening the community is our cause. We believe that lasting personal and social change can only come about when we all work together to invest in our kids, our health, and our neighbors. For those in need. Our social responsibility extends beyond service to our membership. Our building is home to a church, serves as a community meeting place, and is and active center for boy and girl scouts programming. We work collaboratively with local government entities and social service agencies to address community needs including drowning/water safety, food insecurity, homelessness, and childcare voids. We bridge gaps, overcome obstacles, through our work. The y maintains a weekly food distribution and assists those in need with snap applications. Young staff, college interns, and youth volunteers are also trained, molded and developed to be socially aware and responsible. This is demonstrated as we invest our time and energy into accommodating college interns, youth work study programs, scouting award projects, and counselor in training programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 89% 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 59; 59th 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: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 14th 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: 15.7%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.11; 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: 5.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 84.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $160K · 22 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 36 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
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.