YWCA Greater Lafayette

Legal name: Young Womens Christian Association of Greater Lafayette

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
350868224
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Lafayette, IN, United States
Phone
765-742-0075
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,968,711
Expenses
$2,266,565
Assets
$2,387,473
Liabilities
$294,533

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LINDSEY MICKLER (PRESIDENT &)

Highest reported compensation

  • LINDSEY MICKLER (PRESIDENT &): $92,091 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 Greater Lafayette is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people. YWCA is on a mission to eliminate racism and empower women, and we’re committed to accountability and transparency in everything we do. Below you will find resources that illuminate our financial position, outline how we allocate our resources, and showcase the impact of the valuable support from our donors and sponsors. As a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, we welcome your support of our mission! 2024 Impact Report for YWCA Greater Lafayette. We accept donations of certain items. Please visit our Association and Shelter Needs page for information on what items the shelter is currently accepting. I don't have insurance and need a mammogram. Can you help? We may be able to help. Please call our Women's Wellness Program at 765-742-4375 to...

What it reported doing in 2024

Ywcas violence prevention programming includes empowerment services, which tackles economic injustice, a key community and societal-level risk factor that causes and sustains family violence. Empowerment services includes strive, an educational and job coaching program that focuses on digital skills training for those at most risk of victimization, including women and people of color. The goal of this program is to increase vocational opportunities by providing essential digital and workforce skills. In addition, the program offers a dress for success affiliated boutique to outfit participants of the program for interviews and work. It also provides resume building, mentoring, and support groups. Our dress for success services conducted 84 people with workwear interviewing attire to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and the development tools to help women thrive in work and life. Our workforce development program reached 170 participants ( 37 graduates) in our strive program in 2024. Our strive and dress for success greater lafayettes client base was highly diverse, highlighting the racial and economic disparities in our community. 37% of people we served identified as non-white, which is disproportionate to the 17% non-white tippecanoe population. In addition, 52% of participants identified as survivors of domestic violence, reflecting the ongoing internal referral flow between empowerment services and ywcas domestic violence intervention and prevention program. Region). Additionally, ywcas wisewoman program provided integrated services for counseling and monitoring of womens overall health and chronic disease prevention. Wwp navigators and advocates help to remove barriers to medical services. In 2024, this initiative served 1,687 unique clients providing 2,611 screening services such as clinical breast exams, mammograms, breast ultrasounds, pap tests and other breast or cervical diagnostic procedures for the uninsured, underinsured or those who cannot afford their insurance deductibles. Clients diagnosed with cancer are supported with healthcare navigation services that include scheduling appointments, translation services, prosthetic devices, wigs, comfort care items to ease the financial burden of their diagnoses.

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 88% 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: 99
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
  • Fundraising efficiency: $338.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 94; 94th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • 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: -15.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $92K · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.