River Crossing YMCA
Legal name: Young Mens Christian Association of Bethlehem
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 240795635
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2015
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2015
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA, USA
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $842,737
- Expenses
- $655,204
- Assets
- $1,398,862
- Liabilities
- $1,192,642
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEAN EVANS (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID FAGERSTROM (CEO)
People named in this filing
- HOPETON CLENNON (TRUSTEE)
- DEAN SILFIES (TRUSTEE)
- JOHN DITTBRENNER (BOARD TREASU)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2015. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
What it reported doing in 2015
Youth development - the ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen. We believe all kids have great potential and deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. That's why we help young people cultivate the values, skills, and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, better health and educational achievement. Our ymca porgrams offer a range of experiences that enrich social- emotional, cognitive and physical growth. Our child care program offers high quality child care activities for preschool and school age children from all segments or our community. Our day camp offers adventure and learning activities that provide challenge, education and promote spiritual awareness, mental development, physical well-being, social growth, and self respect. The ymca offers a wide variety of programs that help promote the healthy development of youth. Our ymca served hundreds of children from the community through our range of year round,
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 54
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.1%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 61.8%; rating input score 62
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.14; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.85; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -56.5% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -19.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 48.1% of revenue deployed · 61.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $405K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2011 to 2015
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.