YMCA of the Triangle

Legal name: The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
560591307
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Raleigh, NC, USA
Phone
9197199622
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$138,241,356
Expenses
$119,358,501
Assets
$315,792,015
Liabilities
$107,467,983

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

Leadership & pay

45 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRUCE HAM (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRUCE HAM (CEO): $431,891 total reported compensation
  • ANTHONY CAMPIONE (COO): $350,579 total reported compensation
  • BRADLEY DAVIS (CHIEF PHILANTHROPY OFFICER): $336,192 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Mother and son have a tough conversation Helping Children Stay Safe Find tools to support child safety conversations. Adolescent girl looking at her cell phone Five Days of Action Resources that promote digital safety and abuse prevention. changed through financial assistance and support for all YMCA programs. $643,230+ saved through energy conservation measures (ECMs) across YMCA facilities in one year. Our full and part-time staff and volunteers are held to clear, consistent standards designed to protect children and uphold a culture of safety across the Y. Screening & Hiring:** New staff/volunteers undergo interviews, reference checks and criminal/sex offender background checks, which are repeated periodically. Mandatory Training:** Annual training is required for all staff and high-access volunteers on recognizing, preventing and reporting abuse.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth programs: the ymca of the triangle area provides quality youth development programs. These programs emphasize building self-esteem and developing character through programs that build spirit, mind, and body. Christian principles are modeled by staff, and children participate in a variety of enrichment activities, including physical fitness programs, aquatics, sports, and crafts. Activities are designed to teach caring, respect, responsibility, honesty, self-confidence, and faith in god. This year, 14,497 children participated in before school, after school, and track out programs. Financial assistance was provided to 1,245 participants in these programs. This year, 12,805 children participated in regular ymca full and half-day summer camps with financial assistance provided to 1,016 participants. This year, there were 7,633 participants in various youth sports programs. Teamwork, sportsmanship, cooperation, and respect for others are primary goals of the programs. Improved physical fitness and the development of individual skills are other significant goals. There were 1,483 swim team participants this year. In specialized day camps, 630 youth were served, and 2,897 youth were served in academic tutorial programs. Y-guides is a program dedicated to building strong relationships between fathers and their children. 7,802 youth participated in this program. Ymca youth and government is a state-wide nc program for teens that develops the understanding of legislature and government, culminating in a conference held each february. 1,493 youth participated this year.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 78% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 80
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.61 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 28th 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: 69.2%; rating input score 69; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.7%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.65; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 34 of 34 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $92.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $432K · 45 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $670K reported
  • Consistency: 43 of 44 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 17 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 51/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.