Bloomington-Normal YMCA
Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association of Bloomington-normal
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 370662603
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Bloomington, IL, United States
- Phone
- 309.827.6233
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,145,391
- Expenses
- $6,537,232
- Assets
- $26,825,581
- Liabilities
- $3,386,735
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN HANNEL (PRESIDENT)
- BRUCE WILKEN JR (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BRUCE WILKEN JR (CEO): $189,585 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
& Values OUR MISSION To put Christian principles into practice through programs, services and relationships that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. OUR MISSION To put Christian principles into practice through programs, services and relationships that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. OUR VISION. Collectively, the YMCA is the largest nonprofit organization in the United States impacting the lives of more than 20 million individuals annually through the mobilization of more than 600,000 volunteers and more than 15,000 staff members. Locally, the Bloomington-Normal YMCA directly impacts the lives of approximately 4,000 individuals annually and provides financial assistance to the community in the way of membership, program and facility usage in the amount of $160,000.00 annually. With a mission to put Christian principles into practice through programs that...
What it reported doing in 2025
The ymca provides healthy living and youth development opportunities to approximately 5000 individuals in mclean county regardless of their ability to pay for services. Programs such as before/after school child care, summer day camp, youth sports, swim lessons, home school gym and swim, and personal wellness help enrich the lives of individuals in the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.66 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: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.1; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.1% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $190K · 17 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.