The Wilson Area Young Men's Christian Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
562220375
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Wilson, NC, USA
Phone
2522919622
Rating
91
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,026,110
Expenses
$4,549,677
Assets
$26,864,446
Liabilities
$1,521,700

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

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Rodger Lentz (President)
  • Mary Sargent (Past President)
  • Sara Nunez (Chief Executive Officer)

Highest reported compensation

  • Sara Nunez (Chief Executive Officer): $113,724 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.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth Development: Our child care programs offer high quality child care activities for school age children from all segments of our community. We offer a variety of childcare programs, both full and part-time, which provide a safe and nurturing environment where youth can develop self-esteem, good values and an appreciation of charitable service. In accordance with the YMCA mission, our childcare programs have a commitment to strengthening families, providing programs that foster growth and development of the entire family. Our programs enable parents to work or further their education, while knowing their children are safe and being provided programs and support to promote children that are happy and healthy in spirit, mind and body. In 2025, we served 129 children and provided financial assistance in the amount of $50,512. Our youth sports programs offer high quality sports activities for school age children from our community. We provide adult volunteers that serve as role models and mentors to our children. The teachings of character values of honesty, caring, responsibility, respect and faith are integrated into all sports programs while promoting an appreciation of one's own worth. Youth sports programs focus on the full and equal participation of all children. YMCA youth programs also help to strengthen families. Parents, siblings and extended family members support the children by coaching teams or attending sporting events. Young people participating in sports build lifelong positive attitudes, habits of healthy exercise and good nutrition. The YMCA sports programs value cooperation over competition and fair play over winning. The YMCA knows that with this approach everyone wins.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 75% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 95
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st 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: -50.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.9; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 14.5% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $114K · 25 people listed
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 16 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.