YWCA High Point

What it reported doing in 2024

Latino family center - the center is dedicated to improving the quality of life and to promoting community participation of latinos living in the community.lfc is comprised of hermanos, a program focused on middle and high school hispanic youth, and el pueblo, a community resource program focused on hispanic adults. Between the two programs within lfc, we served 2540 individuals. Students in hermanos meet weekly for avance during the school year. This is a space where students are encouraged to express their interests and be themselves. Avance focuses on higher education, service learning and over all wellbeing. Avance provides that allowing the students to be empowered to follow their path to be successful adults. During the summer, a four-week summer camp is offered for students. During the camp, they focus on an issue important to them and research and create a service-learning project for the community around that issue. They also have the opportunity to take field trips and explore beyond high point, such as hiking trips, trips to raleigh to visit museums and other educational and enriching activities. For many of the students this is one of the only times during the year they are able to travel beyond our city's borders.the biggest highlight of 2024 was a trip to Washington dc. We had dreamed of being able to take a group of students to the nation's capitol so they could get a sense of their american heritage and see the seat of our government and also volunteer. This year thanks to many people and a generous grant we were able to take 15 students and 5 chaperones to dc for 4 days. For many of the students it was their first time traveling outside of nc. While we were in dc we volunteered with world kitchen in addition to seeing the sights and museums. One of our former staff from the yw was working in dc with rep. Kathy manning and he gave us a personal tour around dc and taught us about how the government works. It really was a dream come true! El pueblo is a community access program that provides outreach services, information, and referral services to latinos in the greater high point area. In 2024, ywca became a tier one family resource center through positive childhood alliance nc as a part of the statewide family resource center network. This enables tier one centers to provide increased connectedness, coordination, cooperation, and collaboration amongst members, training and technical assistance, advocacy, policy, and legislation, and maintain a shared data tracking system.we were happy to be able to offer our lead academy again. Lead is a leadership program that lasts for 10 months that equips latinos to become leaders in their communities as well as in the greater high point community. In the past we have had lead graduates serve on boards, step into leadership roles at their children's schools and engage in advocacy efforts in the community.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 95.2%; rating input score 95
• Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90
• Fundraising efficiency: $18.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 57; 57th 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: 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: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -6.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.3; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.37; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 7.3%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings