Ywca Greater Harrisburg
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231370514
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Harrisburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7177242242
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Young Men's or Women's Associations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,680,620
- Expenses
- $7,212,413
- Assets
- $20,201,744
- Liabilities
- $438,889
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIN BURLEW (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- LISA STOKES (PRESIDENT)
- DONNA SCHANKWEILER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- MARY QUINN (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARY QUINN (CEO): $241,697 total reported compensation
- ADAM SANTANNA (CFO): $160,189 total reported compensation
- RHONDA HENDRICKSON (COO): $134,356 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 greater harrisburg is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
3. Residential support services - bridge and transitional housing, employment obtainment and counseling, emergency shelter, city shelterthe ywca of greater harrisburg housing and homelessness services provides emergency shelter for single women with or without children for up to 28 days; bridge/transitional housing shelter for homeless women and their children for up to 1 year, single room occupancy section 8 housing for homeless women with no children, permanent housing rental assistance and case management for homeless men and women with disabilities, and "safe haven permanent supportive housing" for chronically homeless women with severe mental illness. Supportive services include individual intensive case management focusing on goal planning, housing counseling and connection to appropriate services and benefits, life skills, parenting education and employment services. Other services available when appropriate include drug and alcohol recovery support groups, and a food bank and clothing bank. From july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2025, these programs provided services to 181 adults and 125 children, for a total of 40,505 bed-nights.under the residential support services within the ywca, the employment services department provides employment support for women who reside at the ywca as well as our greater community. Services include job readiness training, assistance finding a job, job retention and other support services. These programs provided services to 259 unduplicated individuals. (this includes veteran's employment). The veteran's service department provides employment readiness services, training, outreach, transitional housing, permanent supporting housing, rapid re-housing. Health care navigation, case management, shallow subsidy housing supports, legal services, homelessness prevention, and connection to other supportive services to support veteran's health, well-being, and self-sufficiency. From july 1, 2024 through june 30, 2025, these programs provided 185 enrollments and services to 196 unduplicated individuals.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 69% 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.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 88
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: $24.65 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 95%; rating input score 95; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 6.1%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.8; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $242K · 17 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 39 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.