McGaw YMCA

Legal name: Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
362169194
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2025
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Evanston, IL, USA
Phone
8474757400
Rating
81
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$19,689,565
Expenses
$18,933,098
Assets
$22,760,353
Liabilities
$5,990,573

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

Leadership & pay

30 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Becky Slenk (Executive Director, Programs & Operations)
  • Monique Parsons (President and CEO)
  • Bernard Rocca (Branch Executive Director, Camp Echo)
  • Evangeline L Semark (Executive Director, Marketing & Communications)
  • Greg Baiocchi (Executive Director, IT & Telecommunications)
  • JR Remke (Executive Director, Finance)

Highest reported compensation

  • Monique Parsons (President and CEO): $299,943 total reported compensation
  • Nicole Woodard Iliev (Chief Learning & Innovation Officer): $217,366 total reported compensation
  • Becky Slenk (Executive Director, Programs & Operations): $195,540 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The McGaw YMCA cultivates the whole person, strengthens community, and provides equitable access to transformational experiences that uplift the mind, body, and spirit. McGaw YMCA will be a place of belonging for all people at every stage of life. We are committed to strengthening community. Every day, we work in partnership with our neighbors to make sure that everyone in our diverse and vibrant community has the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive.

What it reported doing in 2025

HEALTHY LIVING: McGaw YMCA is a leading voice on improving individual and community well-being. We bring families closer together, encourage good health and foster connections through fitness, sports, fun, and shared interests. As a result, thousands of families in our community are receiving the support, guidance, and resources they need to achieve greater health in spirit, mind, and body. This is particularly important as our nation struggles with an obesity crisis, families struggle with work/life balance and individuals search for personal fulfillment. Our programs are accessible, affordable and open to all people. Last year, McGaw provided $417,771 in scholarship assistance to make our healthy living programs accessible to the community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 83% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 74
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 38
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $4.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 27th 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: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 99.4%; rating input score 99; 44th 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; 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: 3.8%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.2; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $300K · 30 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $782K reported
  • Consistency: 49 of 50 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 17 filing years from 2009 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 11/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.