Ywca Cortland

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
150536617
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Cortland, NY, USA
Phone
6077539651
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$3,610,111
Expenses
$3,637,731
Assets
$5,644,183
Liabilities
$1,306,897

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

Leadership & pay

25 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CATHY BISCHOFF (Vice President)
  • KRISTINA MARTY (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • KELLY TOBIN (Executive Direc): $88,385 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The ywca cortland is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all. There are four core mission-based programs to include aid to victims of violence, health and fitness, childcare and mentoring.

What it reported doing in 2024

Health and Fitness program includes specialized land and aquatics classes for all ages. This program participates in insurance programs to support seniors through a silver sneakers classic and silver sneakers stability with frequent attendance of 20 or more students. Other classes include Yoga, Group X Classes, Aquatic Classes, swim lessons, weight room and personal training. The YWCA has a co-ed and womens only weight room with personal trainers. Gym and recreation classes include pickleball, gymnastics for ages 1-12, basketball and specialty classes. Innovative and creative staff have added more wellness centered programming to include meditation classes and retreats, equine meditation, and sound healing. The aquatic program offers a variety of water exercise classes including a range of movement classes which follow the arthritis foundation guidelines. Swimming lessons are for children from 6 months to 12 years. Private swim lessons bring in all ages from preschool to seniors. A recently added program, Social Seniors continues to grow with more participants joining weekly for socializing, games, and specialized speakers.

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

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: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 87
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $24.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th 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: -0.8%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.23; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $3.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $88K · 25 people listed
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • 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 30/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.