Ywca Cass Clay
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 450226435
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Fargo, ND, USA
- Phone
- 7012322547
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Homeless Shelters
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,211,247
- Expenses
- $6,153,785
- Assets
- $36,326,620
- Liabilities
- $6,611,638
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TAMMI JO BARTA (PRESIDENT)
- RAYONNA HYSTEAD (PAST PRESIDENT)
- LOUISE DARDIS (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- LISA SCHWINDEN (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARY JO LEWIS (PAST PRESIDENT (LEFT IN 2025))
- ERIN PROCHNOW (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- ERIN PROCHNOW (CEO): $286,027 total reported compensation
- JILL DEVRIES (DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $159,747 total reported compensation
- JULIE HAUGEN (COO): $156,031 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
What it reported doing in 2025
The ywca housing and urban development domestic violence (hud dv) program provides housing assistance and supportive services through both rapid re-housing (rrh) and transitional housing (th) programs for individuals and families who are victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and related forms of victimization. The program focuses on promoting housing stability, safety, and long-term self-sufficiency for periods ranging from 6 to 24 months based on participant needs. Participants receive rental assistance, housing stabilization services, case management, and connections to community resources and mainstream benefits to support their transition to and maintenance of safe, permanent housing.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 63% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 69
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.7%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 83.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.1%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.9; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.18; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.7% of revenue deployed · 83.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $286K · 26 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.