YMCA of Delaware

Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510065748
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Wilmington, DE, US
Phone
3025716967
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,557,537
Expenses
$57,468,892
Assets
$114,452,517
Liabilities
$44,293,791

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

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JARRETT ROYSTER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
  • TERRY S MULLAN (COMMUNITY VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • CAROLAN CROSS (COMMUNITY VICE-PRESIDENT EX. DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • JARRETT ROYSTER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $423,957 total reported compensation
  • PETER DEGREGORIO (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $275,578 total reported compensation
  • LINDA RISK (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $273,426 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 empower youth, foster healthy living, and promote strong communities. As a YMCA volunteer, your time and talent go a long way. You can lead a program or class, serve as a role model for young people, become a sports coach, help with a special event, campaign for annual support, or be a part of a committee working to make the YMCA the best it can be. No matter how you help, you’ll make a big difference as you work with others to create a feeling of connectedness in your community. YMCA Youth Program Volunteer Requirements The YMCA of Delaware delivers quality programs through incredible volunteers & staff who help infuse the Y mission and the core values of caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility in all we do. Each youth program focuses on developing chara.

What it reported doing in 2025

Healthy living: the ymca improves Delaware's health and well-being through programs and services that encourage healthy living, bring families closer together, and provide support and guidance to people to achieve better health. The ymca of Delaware strives to be inclusive to all and operates an adaptive fitness program. The ymca of Delaware is a leading provider of preventative health, wellness and exercise services that prevent disease, improve quality of life, promote healthy aging and provide opportunities for adults to build confidence and families to connect with each other. The ymca of Delaware helps eliminate health disparities across socioeconomic barriers in Delaware through providing affordable access to our services and programs through financial assistance. In addition, the ymca of Delaware is a national leader in ymca's diabetes prevention program, an evidence-based program that helps individuals lower their risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Additional healthy living programs include group exercise and personal training programs, classes for active older adults, healthy lifestyles programs, and water exercise.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 71% 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.
  • 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: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 81
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 84.4%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: $15.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • 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; 65th 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 1.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.3%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 84.4% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 21 of 21 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $49.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $424K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 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: 10 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 2 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 38/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.