Ywca Delaware Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
510064344
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Wilmington, DE, USA
Phone
3026550039
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Young Men's or Women's Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$4,860,363
Expenses
$5,000,670
Assets
$11,939,420
Liabilities
$2,341,284

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CAROLANN WICKS (PRESIDENT ELECT)
  • KAREN SMITH (PRESIDENT)
  • MELISSA GONVILLE (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • MELISSA GONVILLE (CEO): $190,230 total reported compensation
  • ROBIN MANDELL (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $131,140 total reported compensation
  • ELIZABETH MCCOURT (CHIEF HEALTH AND SAFETY OF): $120,311 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 Delaware is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

What it reported doing in 2024

Ywca's economic empowerment programs include homeownership education and foreclosure prevention, financial coaching, and wand - wo(men) achieving new directions, which provides work-readiness training for women and their families. The mission or our youth development programming is to build the strength of the community by empowering youth to maximize their personal and educational potential. These programs are designed for clients to achieve economic independence and upward mobility. The target populations served with these programs are low to moderate-income individuals and their families with household earnings at or below 80% of area median income. All programs are open to anyone interested in participating but our target market includes those who need additional household income and may be: unskilled, low formal education, first-generation adult worker, criminal record, home bound or transitional (e.g. Divorced, widow, domestic violence survivor, long-term caregivers, veterans). Accomplishments: ywca reached more than 450 individuals during the year. 100% of wand participants obtained skills to enhance employment and/or increase household income. 83% of homeownership clients demonstrated increased understanding of their current financial situation and improved their financial health and 80% improved skills to enhance employment. In our youth programs, 94% of youth clients developed increased self esteem and sense of purpose.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 70% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
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.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 39
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 82.4%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $9.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • 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: 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: -2.9%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 13.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 82.4% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $190K · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 44/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.