Ymca Alliance of Northern New England
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813187488
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Boothbay Harbor, ME, USA
- Phone
- 2075188846
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,039,653
- Expenses
- $911,740
- Assets
- $653,142
- Liabilities
- $54,182
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY VENDT (INTERIM CEO)
- MEAGAN HAMBLETT (CEO)
- REBECCA E STANFIELD MCCOWN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- REBECCA E STANFIELD MCCOWN (CEO): $68,276 total reported compensation
- MEAGAN HAMBLETT (CEO): $41,981 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 ymca alliance of northern new england and its member ymcas speak in one voice and respond effectively to statewide challenges and opportunities to meet community needs and ensure that all segments of society may access and thrive at the y. Our focus areas are youth development, healthy living and social responsibility and we are grounded in the values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility.
What it reported doing in 2025
Public policy - in collaboration with public policy professionals and a public policy volunteer committee the ymca alliance of northern new england works diligently toward achieving the following outcomes: the alliance leverages our brand and capacity to speak and advocate with one voice to advance the cause of our ys serving all. Address legislative challenges and opportunities by fostering positive relationships with appointed and elected public officials and other key leaders, partners, and volunteers. Communicate y priorities and program impacts - both internally and externally - with a unified message representing the collective strength and impact of the y's in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont. Key partnerships with ymca staff, volunteers, public officials and other community, local, state, national, and global leaders.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 44% for direct work, and 56% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 46
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.7%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 69.2%; rating input score 69
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 12.3%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.3% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 62.7% of revenue deployed · 69.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $631K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $68K · 27 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 15 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.