YMCA at Virginia Tech (VTYMCA)
Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sta
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540505987
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Blacksburg, VA, United States
- Phone
- 540-961-9622
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,352,817
- Expenses
- $1,169,163
- Assets
- $3,559,290
- Liabilities
- $3,317,941
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ryan Martin (CEO)
People named in this filing
- Ryan Martin (CEO)
- Steve Jacobs (Board Chair)
- James Lawrence (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The YMCA at Virginia Tech builds community through learning, leadership, and service. Y Leaders Club--**A program encouraging lifelong volunteer work, personal growth, enhancing leadership skills, and forming positive relationships. Work with Virginia Tech student volunteers to strengthen the pillars of academics, positive relationships, life skills, and positive self identity. Learn the YMCA core values of Respect, Honesty, Responsibility, and Caring. Youth Programs-- **Mission Building community through learning, leadership and service. Creating a safe environment for students to receive homework help and enjoy recreational activities and distribution of healthy food to students. **Y Student Programs****--** Providing volunteer and leadership opportunities for VT students s.
What it reported doing in 2024
Thrift shops promote regional sustainability programs for re-used / re-purposed items, recycling, and textiled goods while also providing low-cost shopping alternatives for needed products.
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 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.
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: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.4%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.04; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.93; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 68.4% of revenue deployed · 78.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $919K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.