Wyckoff Family Ymca

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222011431
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Wyckoff, NJ, USA
Phone
2018912081
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,594,941
Expenses
$26,252,730
Assets
$31,332,892
Liabilities
$4,289,236

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • FRANK CROTTY (PRESIDENT)
  • BILL BURNS (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JOYCE VOTTERO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOYCE VOTTERO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $399,675 total reported compensation
  • SHARON TWIDDY (SCHOOL AGED CHILDCARE DIRE): $152,654 total reported compensation
  • ELIZABETH WARE (PAYROLL DIRECTOR): $143,450 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 wyckoff family ymca is a charitable community service organization that is solely committed to meeting the challenges of the communities that we serve. All are welcome to be part of the y community regardless of race, sex, faith, or financial position.

What it reported doing in 2025

Helping people of all ages and abilities develop health in spirit, mind and body is at the core of the ymca mission. At the wyckoff ymca, programs are 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 children, adults and seniors encourage teamwork, positive social interaction and development of social and physical skills.shining star express is a program offering cultural, social and personal experiences through a creative and performing arts therapy approach meeting the needs of the specially challenged community. The program provides classes for the developmentally, physically and emotionally disabled population. Shining star express is a comprehensive program targeting the areas of enrichment, life skills, development in fine and gross motor skills, social outlet through dance, music, theatre, and the fine arts all allow for experiential and social development. The expression of the individual through the performing and fine arts flourishes in a creative and supportive environment, builds confidence and transcends into all aspects of learning and life experiences. Shining star express celebrates and encourages the unique abilities of those individuals with disabilities. The focus is to build self-esteem, self-awareness, verbal and communicative skills, in conjunction with body awareness through gross motor work in strengthening and coordination through a creative and performing art therapies approach.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 88% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77.5%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 75.2%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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: 16.6%; rating input score 17; 12th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.19; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.7%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77.5% of revenue deployed · 75.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $19.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $400K · 15 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $719K reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 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: 7 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 17/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.