YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381358055
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- (313) 223-2324
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,845,993
- Expenses
- $28,798,760
- Assets
- $30,328,036
- Liabilities
- $7,757,266
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
46 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Parrish Underwood (President & CEO/Board Secretary)
Highest reported compensation
- Parrish Underwood (President & CEO/Board Secretary): $334,072 total reported compensation
- Michelle Kotas (Executive VP of Finance and Operations): $236,980 total reported compensation
- Lisa Mullin (Senior VP of Corporate Services/ Chief People Officer): $184,431 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 strengthen community by connecting all people to their potential, purpose and each other.
What it reported doing in 2025
Child care and day camp the ymca offers children and parents a safe and caring place to grow, supporting parents' efforts to nurture their children's healthy development. Trained and certified staff provide affordable, high-quality care for peace of mind and family success. In 2025, over 1,400 children participated in age-appropriate enjoyable child care experiences. Ymca child care, including after-school care, is offered in licensed locations throughout southeast Michigan and includes youth fitness to ensure a healthy lifestyle at the earliest age. One of the best ways to give children a head start in life is through the quality child care programs at the ymca. But anyone with children knows even the most affordable child care program is a considerable financial responsibility. For some, without the help of the ymca annual campaign, it wouldn't even be a possibility. That is why the annual campaign helps build strong families of all sizes by offering much needed financial assistance for child care. Summer day camp is also offered at every ymca of metropolitan detroit branch, and enrollment often fills up quickly. But the ymca provides several different summer camp experiences - camp ohiyesa in holly, camp nissokone in oscoda or multiple day camp locations throughout southeast Michigan. In 2025, nearly 2,000 children attended camp in the summer. Four of every ten children in ymca day camp are provided subsidy assistance from our annual campaign. Last year, the association raised over $1 million to support families and children to enable their full participation in nurturing programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 99
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.7%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 72.8%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Limited
- Conducts field audits: Limited
- May suspend future funding: Limited
- Requires financial reports: Limited
- Conducts site visits: Limited
- Requires grant agreements: Limited
- May require repayment: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 97.5%; rating input score 98; 27th 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: 6.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.6%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.7% of revenue deployed · 72.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 39 of 40 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $21M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $334K · 46 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.1M reported
- Consistency: 49 of 49 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.