YWCA Elyria
Legal name: Young Women's Christian Association of Elyria Oh
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 340718418
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Elyria, OH, US
- Phone
- (440) 322-6308
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $704,730
- Expenses
- $697,009
- Assets
- $1,137,461
- Liabilities
- $150,967
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- NAJI MCCALL (PRESIDENT)
- JEANINE DONALDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- JEANINE DONALDSON (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $65,000 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 Elyria is dedicated to building community, empowerment, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. YWCA MISSION This YWCA mission statement was adopted by the General Assembly in 2009. Grounded in our mission, the Elyria YWCA will successfully care for our community by striving to create and execute community-focused programs that will make a significant difference in the lives of women, children, and families. We will offer informed, relevant and ever evolving innovative services to meet the current community needs. The Elyria YWCA will be a voice for those cannot speak for themselves as a coach to encourage self sufficiency; an advocate of change on behalf of racial justice, women’s social, economic, political and self-empowerment; and youth development. We will be a strong and vibrant.
What it reported doing in 2024
Activiies include pre-employment, work-maturity programs, health promotion, adult and youth education, character building for youth, advocacy and residential services
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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $104.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th 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; 63rd 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: 1.1%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $596K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.