YMCA of South Hampton Roads
Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540445205
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Chesapeake, VA, United States
- Phone
- (757) 962-5555
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,655,548
- Expenses
- $58,873,538
- Assets
- $125,784,559
- Liabilities
- $25,960,856
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
52 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ANTHONY O WALTERS SR (PRESIDENT/CEO)
- SUSAN E OHMSEN (FORMER EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/CFO (THROUGH 5/16/2025))
- ADAM M KAHRL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/COO)
- JAMIE CHILDRESS (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JEAN KHAWLY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RODRIGUA ROSS (SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANTHONY O WALTERS SR (PRESIDENT/CEO): $506,890 total reported compensation
- ADAM M KAHRL (EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT/COO): $319,193 total reported compensation
- TIMOTHY RICHARDSON (CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER): $316,996 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Everyone knows the Y as a place to camp, swim, or exercise, but we’re so much more. A 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, we’re working side-by-side with our neighbors to address critical community needs that help kids develop into smart, resilient adults, for people to improve their health and build a sense of community, and for our most vulnerable young people to get the care and support they need. _**Our mission**_ is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. With that and our cause of strengthening community, we're here to make coastal Virginia and northeastern North Carolina a better place to live.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth Development: At the YMCA of South Hampton Roads, we believe every young person deserves the opportunity to shine. Whether through our state-licensed summer camps or ACA-accredited overnight experiences, we create spaces where kids and teens can thrive academically, physically, and emotionally. In 2025, 84,690 youth participated in membership and programs, turning moments of fun into milestones of growth. As more families sought safe, enriching environments for their children, we rose to meet the demand. We provided $1,910,482 in financial assistance to 4,739 children because opportunity should never depend on income. Each child's experience is a step toward confidence, capability, and a brighter future. The Y's youth programs continually evolve to meet the needs of the community with many Ys offering access to youth sports, preschool, before and after school child care, summer day camp, overnight camp, martial arts, tumbling, dance, leaders clubs, swimming lessons, swim teams, plus neighborhood-specific programming that directly supports an individual city or community need.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 28th 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: 63%; rating input score 63; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- 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: 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: 6%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.21; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 37 of 37 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $50.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $507K · 52 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.5M reported
- Consistency: 48 of 49 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 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: 19 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.