YWCA Mahoning Valley

Analysis

YWCA Mahoning Valley is a registered charity in United States, based in Youngstown, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1942, 84 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, YWCA Mahoning Valley reported income of $2.2m and spending of $2.3m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $1.5m to $2.2m (+54%), an average of +9.0% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 101%. Over the whole period it spent 103% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, YWCA Mahoning Valley sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Russell Wilson Foundation ($2.2m), United Community Services of Lawrence County Inc ($2.2m) and Rappahannock Area Agency on Aging Inc ($2.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 7.4% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $72k (3.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $873k. At year end it held assets of $8.4m against liabilities of $285k, net assets of $8.1m. It reported 39 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.