Lawton Family YMCA
Legal name: Young Mens Christian Association of Lawton Oklahoma
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 730642616
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Lawton, OK, USA
- Phone
- 5803559622
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,539,440
- Expenses
- $1,493,853
- Assets
- $4,433,395
- Liabilities
- $110,756
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Frank G Walker (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Frank G Walker (CEO): $125,866 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. 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. No one is denied participation in ymca programs due to inability to pay.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth development: the values and skills learned early on are vital building blocks for life. At the ymca, children and teens learn values and positive behavior and can explore their unique talents and interests, helping them realize their potential. The ymca is the starting point for kids to learn about becoming and staying active and developing healthy habits they'll carry with them throughout their lives. Whether it's gaining the conficence that comes from learning to swim or building positive relationships that lead to good sportsmanship and teamwork, participating in youth sports and aquatics programs at the ymca is about building the whole child, from the inside out. Our summer day camps help kids become a community as they learn both how to be more independent and how to contribute to a group as they engage in physical, social and educational activities. Our camps teach self-reliance and help the development of attitudes and practices that build character and leadership.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 78%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.49 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th 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: 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: 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: 3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.97; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.4%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.5% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 78% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $126K · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 46 of 46 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.