The Family Ymca of Lancaster & Fairfield County

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
311132606
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Lancaster, OH, USA
Phone
7406540616
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,101,596
Expenses
$3,114,768
Assets
$5,540,446
Liabilities
$531,689

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

Leadership & pay

18 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JASON BOOTHE (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • JASON BOOTHE (CEO): $140,494 total reported compensation
  • SUSAN BIRDWELL (SENIOR DIREC): $80,002 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 family ymca of lancaster and fairfield county (dba: robert k fox family) is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, income, races and religions. We are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and strong communities by putting christian principles into practice through programs that promote healthy lifestyles, strong values, leadership development, community interaction and international understanding. All people are welcome at our ymca, regardless of their ability to pay. Our ymca is founded and led by volunteers from our community; volunteers also serve as coaches, program leaders, instructors and more.

What it reported doing in 2025

All achievements: child care: ymca provides high quality child care by providing comprehensive activites for preschool and school age children drawing on diverse members of the community. The ymca provides both full and part time options to serve a wide range of family scheduling needs. The ymca provides tuition assistance for child care services. In addition, the ymca provides a variety of activities that emphasize parent education and help parents learn more about how to raise heatlthy, happy children who develop self-esteem and moral ethical values. Health and wellness youth and adults: ymca has programs designed to help people create realistic goals for self improvement and emphasize disease prevention through regular exercise, proper nutrition, stress management and health education. Sports programs for youth, families, and adults promote teamwork, interaction and development of social and physical skills. Water programs and hydroslimnastics water exercise: help the ymca reach seniors and others who want to maintain an active and flexible lifestyle; the ymca skip aquatic program helps to develop physical skills in young children; the gymnastic classes help children with their coordination skills; and our family swim program gives intergenerational relationships. The ymca services are offered at affordable fees for the community at large, with reasonable accomodations for those with special needs, and with financial assistance for those who can't afford the full fee. Youth development programs: ymca programming in gymnastics and dance activites give children good role models to help them develop self-esteem and good values, including cooperation, respect, good citizenship and a strong work ethic. Other youth programming emphasizes the need for fair play and everyone plays regardless of their abilities. The ymca youth programs showcase their ability to develop relationships with children. Yet each child learns a new physcial activity and has fun in a group setting and is given the opportunity to become a leader and supporter and learns the necessary give and take to work toward the common good.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 85% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 92.3%; rating input score 92
  • Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • 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: -0.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 92.3% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $140K · 18 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 49/100.