YWCA of San Gabriel Valley

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
951641967
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Covina, CA, USA
Phone
6269602995
Rating
87
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$12,480,319
Expenses
$12,525,094
Assets
$10,856,142
Liabilities
$6,652,610

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Jeanette Flores (President)
  • Gabriela Chavarria (Past President)
  • Kristin McGuire (Vice President)
  • Debra Ward (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • Jeanette Flores (President)
  • Gabriela Chavarria (Past President)
  • Kristin McGuire (Vice President)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

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

Overview

Mission

The YWCA San Gabriel Valley is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

What it reported doing in 2024

Youth Program Serving young adults between the ages of 14-26, the program offers free specialized and age-appropriate supportive case management for the purpose of assisting with employment, education, life skills goals, and how to be peer social justice advocate. During the reporting period funding was secured to provide a mix of evidence-based, emerging, and promising practices promoting positive youth development, youth leadership and organizing efforts around anti-violence and peace promotion. The goal was to empower growth, provide mental health workshops, trauma-informed care webinars, financial literacy education, 40- Hour DV Advocacy Training, Mental Health First Aid Training, Pathways to Empowerment Program, and QPR Suicide Prevention Training. There were 329 individuals who participated in the Youth Services Program with 109 falling between the ages of 17 years and younger, 34 between the ages of 18-29 and 23 who declined to report their age. A second accomplishment during the year was a partnership with IGT Global, a gaming company which provided software, hardware and furnishing for a state of the art computer lab. Working with volunteer IT professionals and software programmers, the center, while focused initially towards youth is available to community residents of all ages.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 89% 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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 85
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.87; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.61; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $12.5M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.