YWCA Utah
Legal name: Young Women's Christian Association of Utah
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870212467
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Salt Lake City, UT, USA
- Phone
- 801-537-8600
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,835,908
- Expenses
- $9,062,001
- Assets
- $12,755,642
- Liabilities
- $1,089,498
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Liz Owens (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Liz Owens (Chief Executive Officer): $182,069 total reported compensation
- Saundra Stokes (Chief Mission Impact Officer & Chief of Staff): $123,204 total reported compensation
- Kiki Cmielewski (Chief Development Officer): $113,575 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 Utah is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. We are proud to partner with corporations, foundations, and organizations to help us further our mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. We welcome new partners and look forward to finding ways to work together to keep survivors safe, build community, and stand up for social justice. To get in touch about partnership opportunities, please contact Kiki Chmielewski at****[email protected] We could not do our important work without the support of our community.
What it reported doing in 2024
KRH Supportive Services - Childcare, case management and other trauma-informed supportive services for low-income mothers and children living in the Kathleen Robison Huntsman (KRH) Apartments. For Every Woman - consists of the following programs: *Domestic Violence Awareness Month - Our organization host a series of events and participates in various media features to spread awareness of domestic violence and share available resources. At the end of the month, we partner with other nonprofit organizations to support community events such as walks and tabling events. This year we partnered with PIK2AR to support their Heels to Heal Walk which raises awareness and funds to support their social services programming that directly supports victims and survivors of all types of violence. YWCA Utah also hosts a *Week Without Violence - an annual series of education and awareness activities designed to renew the search for alternatives and solutions to violence, and to strengthen our sense of personal and shared responsibility for keeping one another safe from harm.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The program-spending lines do not add up, so the filing cannot show reliably whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.8%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 64.8%; rating input score 65
- Fundraising efficiency: $11.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -2.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.7%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 67.8% of revenue deployed · 64.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $182K · 24 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 42/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 25/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.