YWCA Kalamazoo
Legal name: Young Women's Christian Association of Kalamazoo Mi
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381360598
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Kalamazoo, MI, US
- Phone
- 269-345-5595
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $14,271,718
- Expenses
- $19,890,955
- Assets
- $22,963,462
- Liabilities
- $1,377,203
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
People named in this filing
- SUSAN ROSAS (EXECUTIVE DI)
- DR REGINA NELSON (BOARD CHAIR)
- ARTELLA COHN (VICE CHAIR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
YWCA Kalamazoo is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. The YWCA closed its longest-standing program, the YWCA Fitness Center Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner services were begun to provide on-site medical examinations by specially-trained nurses for victims/survivors of sexual assault. Patients are referred to as ongoing YWCA crisis intervention services. YWCA USA reorganized under a new mission statement that focused clearly on eliminating racism and empowering women, during that time the Association recommitted its efforts to YWCA hallmark impact: racial justice and women’s economic empowerment.
What it reported doing in 2024
The ywca provides the only program in kalamazoo county offering a comprehensive continuum of services designed exclusively for victims/survivors of domestic violence/sexual assault/human trafficking and their dependent children. Services include a secure on-site crisis shelter (58 bed capacity), human trafficking shelter, with emergency off-site overflow capacity; a 24-hour crisis line; individual counseling; support groups; advocacy through the legal, law enforcement, and judicial processes; information, referral and assistance regarding housing, employment and other support 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 46.7%; rating input score 47; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -39.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 80.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.