YWCA Columbus
Legal name: Young Women's Christian Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 314379597
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 614.253.3955
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $16,446,628
- Expenses
- $14,666,785
- Assets
- $26,174,544
- Liabilities
- $1,780,611
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH BROWN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH BROWN (CEO): $251,084 total reported compensation
- JUDY PETERSON (CFO): $185,168 total reported compensation
- SUE DARBY (COO): $154,956 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
YWCA Columbus is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. Woman at her Stove, Shelter Services, YWCA Columbus ON A MISSION****TO EMPOWER WOMEN YWCA Columbus’ Women’s Residency program is a permanent housing program that provides long-term housing and supportive services for nearly 100 women. Many are recovering from addiction, facing battles with job loss or low incomes, or managing disabilities and other obstacles. Our approach at Women’s Residency is person-centered and tailored to individual needs. By providing our residents with the resources they need to get back on their feet and move forward with their next steps, we are building a stronger Columbus community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide section 8 housing and supportive services to 91 formerly homeless women with disabilities and provide emergency shelter and meals for approximately 50 homeless families in a 24/7 operation.
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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.3%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 73.3% of revenue deployed · 81.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $12M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $251K · 23 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 3 contractors listed · $1.1M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.