Gateway Region YMCA

What it reported doing in 2014

Youth development our ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen. We believe that all kids deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they think they can achieve. As part of our efforts to nurture the potential of young people---we offer programs such as, after and before school care, education and leadership programs, competitive swimming and sports, recreation, youth sports programs and youth swim lessons that help instill values, build muscles, change mind-sets, and even save lives. Last year, the ymca had 3453 youth sports participants making lay-ups, running bases, and scoring goals. Over 9490 learned to swim or made their first attempt at fully submerging their face in the water for the first time while blowing bubbles--- and about 341 young people stayed with us after school as their parents made their way home from work. During the summertime, 1,273 youth joined us as we made crafts, sang songs, took field-trips, and learned how to be caring, honest, respectful, and responsible. For some students, our help was more basic and significantly transformational. Facing the prospect of failing school, families turned to the y for help with math, science, and english homework. At a local high school, the ymca helped make a way for the dream of a college education take root. These and many other programs set the stage for redirecting and affirming a "child in the way he should go" even when the going gets tough. Ymca, local church join forces to help needy with a tutoring collaboration by daniel kelly-belleville news democrat the ymca of southwest Illinois (ymca) and local volunteers with the united churches of the metro east (ucm) have been surveying residents within a federally subsidized housing located in o'fallon, Illinois. The groups are trying to learn ways to help residents in that low-income neighborhood and others through the quality of life survey and, ymca executive director, jared beard said. "it's face to face with the usually two interviewers going into homes and building relationships with the people, and finding out what their interests are and what needs they have," beard said. "we use it as a tool, to find out what the community needs are and based our programs around them." the ymca intitiated the survey and ucm joined the effort because their goals had a "common ground," ucm volunteer sheryl sommer said. "we're always looking to build relationships," sommer said. "relationships are so key in building a community instead of being isolated. That is how we get myths about those different from us in lower income statuses." beard said the effort was part of the ymca's overarching emphasis upon building local outreach community programs.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
• Program expense ratio: 92.3%; rating input score 92
• Fundraising efficiency: $5.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 69th 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: 3.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings