Wenatchee Valley YMCA

Legal name: Wenatchee Valley Young Mens Christian Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
910578224
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Wenatchee, WA, United States
Phone
509.662.2109
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,050,159
Expenses
$4,311,992
Assets
$40,402,385
Liabilities
$3,616,018

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DORRY FOSTER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • DORRY FOSTER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $170,126 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Here at The Y, Everyone Is Welcome. The Y is a membership organization open to all people. We welcome all, of every age, background, belief, ability, and financial circumstance. In honoring our mission, we are stronger when we **embed For All in everything** we do. Tribal Land Recognition The Wenatchee Valley YMCA (Y) strives to promote for all people a community of recognition and respect. The Y operates upon and serves the communities enriched by the traditional lands of the P’squosa people (known as the Wenatchi during treaty negotiations). We make this acknowledgement in hopes of developing genuine relationships with the P’squosa people and to recognize and express gratitude to the P’squosa ancestors, the first inhabitants and stewards of the Wenatchee Valley, for their foresight in caring for and respecting the land and waterways.

What it reported doing in 2025

Youth development: we believe that all kids deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. This belief drives our efforts to support young people as they endeavor to cultivate the values, skills, and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, better health, and educational achievement. The association's youth and teen programs provide quality activities led by appropriate role models in positive environments for children who might otherwise be unsupervised. Participants develop self-esteem and good values like caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. The association's youth and teen center is open 25 hours per week and includes a fitness arcade, game room, learning center, and kitchen. Swimming lessons, teen strength training, pickleball, basketball, and recreation swims allow children to develop new skills and provide positive outlets for youthful energy. The association's summer adventure club, extreme teens, holiday programs, and after school programs support healthy families by providing care for children of working parents. As part of the association's mission their programs are accessible, affordable and open to all faiths, backgrounds, abilities and income levels. They provide financial assistance to people who otherwise may not have been able to afford to participate. Ymca youth development programs served more than 3,228 individual youth in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 71% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 86
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27.1%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 78.7%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $51.74 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 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: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 89.3%; rating input score 89; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 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: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 77.4%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 9.37; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 17.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 27.1% of revenue deployed · 78.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 28 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $3.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $170K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $14.9M reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 38 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.