Young Mens Christian Association of Cleveland
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340714728
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Cleveland, OH, USA
- Phone
- 2167811337
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $31,559,049
- Expenses
- $33,268,968
- Assets
- $51,726,388
- Liabilities
- $15,496,668
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Timothy M Hilk (CEO and President)
- Joseph Cerny (Vice President, Property/ Executive Director Lorain County)
- Tiffany L McGee (Sr. Vice President of Branch Operations)
Highest reported compensation
- Timothy M Hilk (CEO and President): $330,721 total reported compensation
- Craig S Chaffinch (CFO): $198,960 total reported compensation
- Joseph Cerny (Vice President, Property/ Executive Director Lorain County): $172,915 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 ymca of greater cleveland's mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
Social Responsibility Y-Haven provides transitional housing, Substance Use Disorder and mental health treatment, and other critical services to adult women and men who are experiencing homelessness, re-entering the community from incarceration, and seeking to recover from opioid use disorder. Y-Haven worked to help participants recover from addiction and mental illness, secure income and permanent housing, and reduce the likelihood of overdose. Y-Haven did this through the provision of safe transitional housing, high-quality behavioral health treatment, nursing care management, case management, vocational support, and other needed services. In 2025 Y-Haven provided transitional housing and Substance Use Disorder treatment to 609 adults, 46 of whom were Veterans experiencing homelessness. Sixty-eight percent of residents completed 90 days of Intensive Outpatient Treatment, and 45% obtained employment or training (less those receiving SSI/SSDI or engaged in intensive outpatient treatment). Less than 1% of those served recidivated to prison, and less than 5% returned to emergency shelter upon exiting the program. During 2025 Y-Haven completed a two-year, $6 million renovation of its 208 residential rooms and 25 staff offices in its facility. The funds came from public and private sources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 79% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 34; 34th 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: 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: -5.4%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 24 of 24 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $29.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $331K · 34 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.5M reported
- Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.