YMCA of the Iowa Mississippi Valley

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth development our y began by serving disengaged youth 167 years ago, and this remains a major focus of our community-building work. We continue to be a leader in quality child care and preschool in the three counties we serve. 63 students in our high-quality childcare program are able to do so because of assistance from a scholarship or through dhs funding. Our continued focus on services to families with young children made additional impacts in our local economy. Although staffing levels continued to be a challenge that limited our capacity, our childcare and preschool programs were able to maintain operations at two early learning centers, which 60% were on a form of financial assistance. Weeks through kindergarten, and we successfully report that 100% of our participants graduated preschool and tested "ready for kindergarten" which is a key indicator in educational outcomes for a student's life. As social emotional stress and negative behaviors continued to create obstacles for students and staff in our schools, the need for the ymca outreach programs have become more critical than ever. Increased burdens are being placed on educators and the juvenile justice program, teams, and the ymca outreach program is perfectly suited to connect and engage students, young adults, and families to the many health and human service providers available. The y's outreach program is led by one full-time professional who has extensive experience in education. Their lived experiences compare well to what the at-risk students and families are experiencing, which enables them to quickly build relationships, gain trust, set goals, provide incentives and hold accountable program participants. The outcomes we measure for participants in achievers relate to their performance at school, which include 75% of participants improving grades, 72% improving attendance, 90% of age/grade level-appropriate participants graduating or getting their ged, over 70% improving test scores, almost every student improves social emotional health and community leadership. Our ymca, with staff leadership and donor support, was able to offer safe summer camp programs at seven locations, including ymca camp abe lincoln, our 250-acre nature programming area. We had 1,018 participants in day camps at ymca camp abe lincoln, and youth sports continues to be a crucial component of our mission-driven program line. In total 7,352 youth participants used sports programs at our ymca to learn confidence and social skills, as well as beginning healthy habits that are intended to stay with them for life. We also built connection and engagement and safe swimming with 3,642 swim lessons. Young kids also interacted and played together six days a week with almost 43,102 visits to our child watch centers in our branch facilities.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 67.5%; rating input score 68
• Program expense ratio: 87.8%; rating input score 88
• Fundraising efficiency: $113.14 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Limited
  • Requires narrative reports: Limited
  • Conducts field audits: Limited
  • May suspend future funding: Limited
  • Requires financial reports: Limited
  • Conducts site visits: Limited
  • Requires grant agreements: Limited
  • May require repayment: 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: Scored; rating input score 0

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 24.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.03; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings