Young Men's Christian Association Joliet

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
362169197
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Shorewood, IL, USA
Phone
8157299638
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Affiliation
Christianity

Reported finances

Revenue
$27,483,100
Expenses
$17,595,352
Assets
$77,595,972
Liabilities
$18,211,754

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KATHRYN LECLAIR (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KATHRYN LECLAIR (PRESIDENT & CEO): $269,489 total reported compensation
  • DAWN SCHULTZ (CFO): $161,567 total reported compensation
  • CAROLYN HAMILTON (CMCO): $156,110 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 put christian principles into practice by developing relationships among all persons and providing programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body. The y provides financial assistance, to all who are in need. No one is turned away for inability to pay.

What it reported doing in 2025

The ymca offers a diverse selection of aquatics programming for all ages, with a focus on swim lessons and drowning prevention for youth, in which approximately 2,500 children participate in throughout the year. As with all programs offered, the purpose of the program is to help children grow and develop in spirit, mind, and body through the ymca's core values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Children are taught the fundamentals of swimming skills and water safety , with an emphasis on personal, progressive development, while instilling a life-long love of the activity. The ymca provides financial assistance to all children who qualify and would otherwise be unable to afford to participate in the 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 total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 63
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 75
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55%; rating input score 55
  • Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $14.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • 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: Limited
  • 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: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.41; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.2% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 28 of 28 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $14.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $269K · 35 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 55/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.