Carlisle Family YMCA

Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association of Carlisle

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
231386198
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Carlisle, PA, US
Phone
717-243-2525
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,583,232
Expenses
$3,971,551
Assets
$16,064,978
Liabilities
$2,503,745

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

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MICHELE HOLLOWAY (CEO)
  • ADAM SMITH (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • MICHELE HOLLOWAY (CEO): $143,286 total reported compensation
  • RYAN KIRKHOFF (DIR. OF HR A): $89,620 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Our Mission To develop personal growth, enhance family values and provide community service through programs available to all. Our Values. A Carlisle Family YMCA membership gives you much more than access to our facility. It helps you lead a healthier life by building relationships, providing a way for you to be part of your community and help others. Consider signing up for some of our many programs for kids, teens, adults of all ages and families! Health & Fitness Aquatics Youth Family Community Helpful Links.

What it reported doing in 2024

Total health - wellness for all - helping people of all ages and abilities develop health in spirit, mind, and body is at the core of the ymca movement. Our ymca is committed to providing a comprehensive array of programs designed to meet the needs of our diverse community. Wellness and fitness programs help people, youth through seniors, to create realistic goals for self-improvement and emphasize wellness through regular exercise, proper nutrition, stress management, and health education. Aquatic programs offer swim instruction, therapeutic water aerobics, arthritis therapy and special need classes. Sports programs for youth, familes, and adults promote teamwork, interaction, and development of social skills as well as physical activity. Our work place corporate advantage program brings ymca wellness offsite to many locations in our community. Costs related to membership services include promotion, billing, records management, delivery, and management of financial-assistance programs, retention, and weekly/monthly reporting of membership and administrative staff and board committees. Also, costs related to facility include use by the members (pool, gymnasium, racquetball courts, youth lobby, locker rooms, prescott and amp rooms, and general use areas), utilities, and support staff services (member services desk staff, fitness instructors, lifeguards, youth monitors, maintenance staff, custodial staff, etc.). Our financial assistance program for memberships makes fitness available to anyone in our community. Membership and program assistance in the amount of 372,983 was provided to 2,231 members. The ymca works with the united way to subsidize total health services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 85% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
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

STRONG - 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: 92
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86.1%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 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: -10.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.05; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 86.1% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $143K · 25 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $110K reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 2 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.