Madison Area YMCA

Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
221487385
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2020
Location
Madison, NJ, United States
Phone
973.822.9622
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,633,521
Expenses
$18,646,557
Assets
$32,335,415
Liabilities
$5,968,781

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

Leadership & pay

35 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DIANE MANN (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
  • KARE MATRISCIANO (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & CHILDHOOD EDUCATION)
  • KATHLEEN MARTINI (VICE PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCES)

Highest reported compensation

  • DIANE MANN (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $404,231 total reported compensation
  • KARE MATRISCIANO (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT & CHILDHOOD EDUCATION): $148,825 total reported compensation
  • KIMBERLY BUCCHERI (VP, FAMILY CENTER OPERATIONS): $146,215 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Your donation helps create a welcoming, inclusive space where everyone—children, families, and individuals—can grow, connect, and thrive, supporting programs such as scholarships, youth development, wellness initiatives, and outreach services. Darkness to Light is a nonprofit organization with the mission to empower adults to prevent child sexual abuse through awareness, education, and stigma reduction. Darkness to Light’s flagship program, _Stewards of Children_ ®, is an evidence-informed, award-winning training that teaches adults to prevent, recognize, and react responsibly to child sexual abuse. More than 1.9 million adults have been trained using Darkness to Light trainings. For more information, visit www.D2L.org. _*For reporting suspected child abuse or neglect in New Jersey call the Department of Children and Families: 1-877-NJ-ABUSE (877-652-2873) 24 hours a day, 7 days a...

What it reported doing in 2025

By offering a variety of financial assistance mechanisms, the Y strives to serve our whole community, particularly by assisting those with limited incomes and those facing personal crises. Our strategic plan focuses on identifying and engaging individuals from under-served communities, working to ensure our environment is welcoming and creates a clear sense of belonging, especially to newcomers. To expand inclusion, our Y maintains ongoing wellness and fitness programs for children, teens and adults with disabilities. To more fully reach underserved communities, the Y hosted supply drives for partner organizations including AAUW (American Association of University Women), Jamaica Relief, Toys for Tots, Moms Helping Moms and Jersey Cares. Food collection drives were hosted for the United Methodist Church, Diwali SEWA and other local low-income families. Through the engagement of dozens of volunteers, the Y generated more than 7,000 hours of volunteer service during the year, including hosting 25 Madison High School students for a Day of Service at the Kirby Center.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 83% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 47
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.5%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12.01 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 96.6%; rating input score 97; 26th 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: 5%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 81.5% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 28 of 29 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $404K · 35 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 41 of 42 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 39/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.