YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860098936
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Glendale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6022580990
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,258,027
- Expenses
- $2,588,769
- Assets
- $2,921,458
- Liabilities
- $162,507
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Debra Esparza (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Debra Esparza (CEO): $139,396 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 Metropolitan Phoenix is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
What it reported doing in 2024
The senior program provides nutritious meals, socialization, and support services to older adults, particularly those at risk, enabling them to maintain a maximum level of independent living with dignity. The program meets the increasing needs of the growing population of older adults with low income by offering the following resources. Congregate lunch, YWCA coordinates services among four centers in Glendale, Arizona to provide nutritionally balanced hot meals at noon, educational opportunities, self improvement activities, health screenings, health fairs, activities and outings to engage and support our clients. Home delivered meals, meals, on wheels, participants receive a hot nutritious meal daily, along with conversation and a wellness check. YWCA staff are trained to report any change in conditions, inquire, and assess additional unmet needs. YWCA serves as the conduit between participants and their case managers to bridge the gap in securing resources. More than a meal, providing older adults with access to additional services. 1. Socialization Activities such as educational workshops, self improvement activities and exercise to keep clients engaged at home and in person, while staying socially connected. 2. YWCA acts of kindness entails holiday and birthday bundles of love, regularly distributed fresh produce and healthy snacks, toiletry kits, household items. 3. Resource hub connector to health and wellness providers, partner referrals, food boxes, home safety modifications and maintenance.
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 97% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 70.9%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 4th 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: 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: -105.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.13; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 70.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $139K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 36 of 39 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Fund balance restriction sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D other securities reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.