Big Spring YMCA
Legal name: Young Mens Christian Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 750827470
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Big Spring, TX, United States
- Phone
- (432) 267-8234
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,334,202
- Expenses
- $2,120,592
- Assets
- $7,523,085
- Liabilities
- $1,163,924
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DATHAN JONES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- RAUL MARQUEZ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DATHAN JONES (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $75,370 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 big spring family ymca is dedicated to building mind, body, and a christian spirit through quality programs and services. I moved to Big Spring Texas to join the Family YMCA in 2010. I am so blessed to be part of a non-profit organization that gives back to its community. For two decades I have operated in fitness centers such as Cisco Junior College, Hardin Simons University. Employed in this field has solidified my life’s dream, spearheading and leading functional campaigns. Operating various fitness programs, handling developments of large gymnasiums. I managed 100-300 full/part-time including volunteers. My career has shaped me into becoming a leader, a mentor and dear friend to many in the community. Physical training in this field allows me to also stay in good health at the YMCA doing something I absolut.
What it reported doing in 2025
One of the core fulfilling programs conducted by the ymca is its childcare program. The program is a united way supported function ad serves big spring and howard county youth. The program consists of all day and after school supervision for children of working and student parents. The program is inherent in achieving the ymcas mission of developing strong body, mind and spirit in the youth of howard county through the supervised activities within the childcare program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.6%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 68%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $43.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.2%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.55; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.6% of revenue deployed · 68% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $75K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D revenue reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.