Ymca of Virginia's Blue Ridge
Legal name: Young Men's Christian Association of Virginia's Blue Ridge Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540515736
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, USA
- Phone
- 540-342-9622
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,943,995
- Expenses
- $14,836,031
- Assets
- $30,305,752
- Liabilities
- $4,625,906
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARK JOHNSON (PRESIDENT/CE)
Highest reported compensation
- MARK JOHNSON (PRESIDENT/CE): $264,657 total reported compensation
- JENNIE WEEKS (CHIEF HUMAN): $170,896 total reported compensation
- PATRICIA REYNOLDS (COO): $162,596 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 Felt Every Day. Our mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. As an organization, we chose to apply that principle as we carry out the rest of our mission. We chose to put love into practice through our holistic programming and we choose to love **“all”**. This means people of all races, genders, and belief systems. Our Focus With our focus on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, the Y nurtures the potential of every youth and teen, improves the nation’s health and well-being, and provides opportunities to give back and support neighbors.
What it reported doing in 2024
Healthy living the ymca focuses on healthy living by advocating health and well-being from the inside out - the spirit, mind and body. The ymca provides about 31,000 people with recreational and fitness programs that include individual and group exercise, swimming, sports and age-specific recreations. In 2025, we provided 320,238 in financial assistance for membership, wellness and aquatics programs to overcome economic barriers to participation. As a part of this, we provide affordable memberships to women in recovery from our local rescue mission. This is particularly important as our nation struggles with an obesity crisis, families struggle with work/life balance and individuals search for personal fulfillment. We offer complimentary fitness orientations and health assessments to help members set goals to improve their health. In coordination with the ymca of the USA's activate america initiative, all ymca programs promote the long-term health benefits of good diet and regular exercise to combat obesity. We bring families together, offer support, recreational and social networks that build relationships and strengthen bonds. Our programs are accessible, affordable and open to all faiths, backgrounds, abilities and income levels. Our y splash program, in coordination with local schools, is held at both our kirk and salem family ymcas giving second graders the opportunity to learn water safety and participate in swim instruction. Last year, hundreds of second graders took part in the program, gaining self-esteem and responsibility in the water. At the program's conclusion, each child is tested for ability to save his or her own life in deep water; those who cannot pass are provided with free swim lessons until he or she can pass the test. This program has been, and continues to be, successful as students year after year look forward to participating in developing skills for life. Our swim team continues the learning from y splash with competitive meets where good sportsmanship is upheld over winning at all cost. In 2025 about 200 individuals participated in this important program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.2%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: 0.7%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.04; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.1%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 89.2% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $13.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $265K · 29 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.