South Mountain Ymca
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232239399
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Reinholds, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6106702267
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,012,517
- Expenses
- $3,041,521
- Assets
- $8,505,249
- Liabilities
- $1,021,005
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER MIKES (PRESIDENT & SECRETARY)
- BILL HINTON (CEO THRU OCT 2025)
- JERRY HUNCOSKY (INTERIM CEO AS OF OCT 2025)
Highest reported compensation
- BILL HINTON (CEO THRU OCT 2025): $152,020 total reported compensation
- JERRY HUNCOSKY (INTERIM CEO AS OF OCT 2025): $26,880 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 mission of south mountain ymca is to provide a camping experience, educational and other programs that build personal leadership, character and life skills while developing caring, honesty, respect and responsibility in young people, families and communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The south mountain ymca camps, operating as an independent ymca camp and conference center since 1982, has been providing youth recreational and educational programs for over 60 years (prior to 1982 under the direction of the ymca of reading & berks county). Camp conrad weiser overnight camp and bynden wood day camp provide the primary backdrop for all activities; however, program opportunities today stretch into areas of outdoor education and environmental education programs, curriculum training, corporate conferencing, kindred group retreats, church retreats, parent/child programs, and more.see continuation on schedule o.the ymca serves over 7,831 individuals annually, with participants drawn mainly from the local area and surrounding communities. Our summer campers come from Pennsylvania, neighboring states, and more than half a dozen other countries.our overnight camp served 686 unique campers for 1,068.5 weeks, day camp served 325 unique campers for 1,102 weeks, and our outdoor center served 6,820 children and adults. Each camper and group fills out evaluations to ensure we are meeting their expectations and our program goals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 66% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.3%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $15.56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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: -1%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.8; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.3% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $152K · 24 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.