The Greater Morristown YMCA Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Summer camp: the greater morristown ymca has operated its summer camp for more than 40 years at the ymca's facility in cedar knolls. In 2016 we opened the y-zone youth annex, a brand-new state-of-the-art facility to house our expanding camp program. We provide children between the ages of three and thirteen, a summer of safe, fun, and memorable experiences. In 2025 we had appoximately 350 children enrolled. Our camp programs are educational; they promote mental stimulation, physical well-being, social growth, and respect for the environment. We organize and run a variety of activities making use of our facility and the surrounding three acres. The camp aims to assist participants achieve their fullest potential and serves as childcare for working parents during the summer months. Our campers enjoyed weekly field trips and swimming at the ymca and also at a local community pool. The summer camps operated by the greater morristown ymca have become a staple in the morris county community, with many children returning annually. Our little owls (ages 3-5) and kindercamp (for those entering kindergarten in september) run from 8:00am - 5:00pm which is conducive to working parents. Our camps include themed weeks, attracting children and families with a wide range of interests and needs. Programming includes opportunities for the exploration of nature, sports, stem programs, music, swimming lessons, art, nutritional cooking, field trips, and so much more. Our camp is a safe, productive, and fun way for kids to spend the summer months, gain self-confidence, learn new skills, make new friends, create lifelong memories, and most importantly, do so while in a safe environment. In 2025 alone, 55 children received scholarship assistance to attend our summer camp through our annual support campaign. Those same county agencies mentioned in a "report of current activities", seek our assistance every summer to provide camp for the children of their clients. Preschool swim program the greater morristown ymca has a very active aquatics program that provides swimming and water safety skills as well as promoting good health via regular exercise. Children from our childcare centers receive free weekly swim lessons at our ymca. It is our number one priority that all the enrolled preschoolers in our care master the fundamentals of swimming by the time they graduate from our preschool and head into kindergarten. It is proven that knowing how to swim saves lives. According to the cdc, more than one in five fatal drowning victims are children younger than 14. Many of our preschoolers are minorities and children who come from non-english-speaking households. According to the USA swimming foundation and the cdc, 70% of african american and 60% of hispanic/latino children cannot swim. Further, african american children drown at a rate nearly three times higher than their caucasion peers and the number one cause of death for children under the ages of six is drowning. The greater morristown ymca takes these statistics very seriously and is committed to help the underpriviledged children of morris county learn how to swim, a lifesaving skill that will contnue to benefit them for years to come. Every week, our preschoolers head to the ymca to attend swim lessons. The classes are 30 minutes in length and the children are taught basic skills for in and out of the water. We find that the children who start our swim program in preschool 2 (ages 3 & 4) are usually able to swim the length of the pool using freestyle and backstroke by the time they graduate preschool. Because we truly believe in teaching children how to swim, we provide it free of charge to all of our enrolled preschoolers. There are four sessions throughout the year, 11 classes in each. On average, 140 preschoolers receive 44 free lessons per year, amounting to over $100,000 per year (includes lesson fee, instructor fees, busing, lifeguards, etc.) the cost per child, per year, to learn how to swim is

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 91%; rating input score 91
• Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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: 9.1%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.26; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 6.7%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings