YMCA of Greenville

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
570314424
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Greenville, SC, US
Phone
864-242-1111
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$29,834,081
Expenses
$29,221,130
Assets
$88,467,824
Liabilities
$17,055,673

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

40 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SCOT BADDLEY (PRESIDENT/CEO (FORMER))
  • SAMUEL FRANKLIN (PRESIDENT/CEO (CURRENT))
  • JARROD COVINGTON (VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES)
  • CORY HARRISON (VICE PRESIDENT OF OVERNIGHT CAMPING)
  • BRIAN VEST (VICE PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS)
  • STEPHANIE KNOBEL (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR - JUDSON COMMUNITY CENTER)

Highest reported compensation

  • SCOT BADDLEY (PRESIDENT/CEO (FORMER)): $324,143 total reported compensation
  • SAMUEL FRANKLIN (PRESIDENT/CEO (CURRENT)): $294,313 total reported compensation
  • BARBARA F JEFFERSON (EVP & CFOO): $253,666 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The YMCA of Greenville, following the example of Christ, builds healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

What it reported doing in 2024

Day camp - the day camp program is designed to be fun as well as educationally stimulating while teaching social skills and values like caring, honesty, respect and responsibility. Healthy spirit, mind and body are emphasized in the day camps. To that end, sports and games, including aquatics, are core areas, as are outdoor skills and the arts.recreation - the youth sports programs strive to teach sports skills but always focus on teamwork, responsibility, good sportsmanship and fun. This area primarily consists of sports clinics and sports leagues.personal development - a variety of rogramming is included in this category. Adventure guides/princesses provide opportunities for fathers and their children to have fun together with other fathers and kids. The association hosts regularly scheduled teen events concerts, movie nights and weekend trips. Additionally, the association provides a series of weeklong leadership development training sessions including classroom instructions, hands on job shadowing, team building and game leadership. The ymca youth in government program seeks to help create the next generation of good citizens through demystifying local, state and national government systems so tomorrow's adults will know how to effect change within these systems.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 76% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 91% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 75
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.9%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd 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; 66th 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: 2.1%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.03; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.8% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 72.9% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 31 of 31 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $324K · 40 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.2M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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.

Key Signals

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

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.