YMCA of Jefferson County

Analysis

YMCA of Jefferson County is a registered charity in United States, based in Mount Vernon, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1965, 61 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, YMCA of Jefferson County reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.5m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.5m (+37%), an average of +8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, YMCA of Jefferson County sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Parks Edge Preschool Inc ($1.5m), Chazak ($1.5m) and Turlock Gospel Mission ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 68% and program service revenue 27% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $489k. At year end it held assets of $999k against liabilities of $560k, net assets of $439k. It reported 124 employees.