YWCA Mankato
Legal name: Young Women's Christian Association of Mankato
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410711619
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Mankato, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5073454629
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $746,018
- Expenses
- $716,883
- Assets
- $1,139,905
- Liabilities
- $53,543
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CECELI BIDELMAN (EXECUTIVE DI): $101,674 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 Mankato is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. At YWCA Mankato, we believe that confidence is the cornerstone of learning, dreaming, and achieving. Our mission is to build a foundation of self-assurance in girls and gender-expansive youth, starting from birth and extending through adolescence. We recognize the importance of empowering young minds with the tools they need to flourish. We are committed to creating a strong pipeline of community resources dedicated to supporting and uplifting girls and gender-expansive youth at every stage of their journey. By forging partnerships and collaborations, we aim to provide a network of opportunities that foster growth, resilience, and empowerment. Our focus extends beyond traditional boundaries,.
What it reported doing in 2024
Build habits that lead to a lifetime of health. At the end of each three- month session, the girls participate in a girls on the run 5k event. This celebratory, non-competitive event is the culminating experience of the curriculum. Completing the 5k gives the girls a tangible understanding of the conference that comes through accomplishment, as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. Crossing the finish line is a defining moment when the girls realize even the seemingly impossible is possible. Camp gotr was launched to increase overall program accessibility and provide elementary school-aged girls with opportunities for physical activity & social-emotional skill development during non-school times. This program will provide girls in 3rd through 5th grade access to quality youth programming, which research shows is important for a myriad of reasons: social, emotional, academic, as well as the ability to provide constructive and safe spaces for children. It will also serve to make girls on the run programming more accessible to girls within the greater mankato area who have previously not been able to participate in the 10-week school year program.
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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.9%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $201.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 3.9%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.59; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.2%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 69.9% of revenue deployed · 72.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $521K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $102K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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 47/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.