YMCA of Metropolitan Washington

Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Washington

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
530207403
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Washington, DC, United States
Phone
(202) 232-6700
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$49,246,047
Expenses
$53,036,950
Assets
$53,820,020
Liabilities
$23,075,679

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

Leadership & pay

30 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANGIE L REESE-HAWKINS (PRESIDENT & CEO UNTIL 01/24)
  • PAMELA CURRAN COO UNTIL 0124 (THEN PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • PAMELA CURRAN COO UNTIL 0124 (THEN PRESIDENT & CEO): $579,267 total reported compensation
  • STACEY BUSIJA (SVP, HUMAN RESOURCES): $273,979 total reported compensation
  • DWIGHT BRIDGES (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $272,391 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 is to foster the spiritual, mental and physical development of individuals, families and communities; by all and for all. The Y is made up of people of all ages, from all backgrounds, working side-by-side to strengthen communities. Together, we work to ensure that everyone can reach their full potential with dignity.

What it reported doing in 2024

Developmental care: the ymca provided child care for infants, toddlers, pre-school and school aged children from 6 weeks to 14 years old. Child care is provided for the entire day or before-and-after school. Woven into the ymca mission is a commitment to strengthen families. Ymca childcare programs relieve the burden of balancing work and family and make it possible for parents of children in our care to remain gainfully employed, knowing that their children are thriving in a safe, developmentally sound environment. Our child care locations meet and often exceed the required licensed standards. The ymca is the largest nonprofit provider of childcare in the Washington area. Members of the ymca's staff are trained professionals, implementing a curriculum that encourages children to develop self-esteem, self-confidence, motor skills and a positive social attitude engaging in age-appropriate activities.thingamajig: not even a pandemic could stop the ymca's annual stem thingamajig invention convention from being held. Rather than be cancelled, thingamajig re-invented its presence to a mainly virtual event, allowing young people to continue to dream, invent, and present their inventive designs through the newly established online platform. In addition, the 11,250 children attending the ymca's summer programs (summer day camp/power scholars academy/community parent) continued to explore and experiment with recyclables in designing new and improved ways of thinking about our future. In addition to the thingamajig youth, the ymca promotes stem through connecting young people in regular science and technology experiences, i.e.; gardening at the y, robotics for the younger curious learners, science of the sound supper experiences, math and science family nights, scigirls clubs, techbridge, stem gents for teens club, ruff ruffman workshop with weta summer science enrichment, hero education, crazy 8s math club and girls who code club are just a few of the programs promoting the stem.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 83% 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

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: 85
  • Transparency & Controls: 91
  • Accountability: 96
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 95.4%; rating input score 95
  • Program expense ratio: 88.4%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $6.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • 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: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th 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: -7.7%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.43; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 12th 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: 95.4% of revenue deployed · 88.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $46.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $579K · 30 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.3M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 13 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 13/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.