Young Womens Christian Association

Analysis

Young Womens Christian Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Janesville, WI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1922, 104 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, Young Womens Christian Association reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.5m, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.1m to $1.9m (-8.9%), an average of -2.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Young Womens Christian Association sits at the 82nd percentile: it is larger than about 82% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within WI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Uplift Solutions Inc ($1.9m), MHMR Visions ($1.9m) and Renova Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 56% and program service revenue 43% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $186k (7.4% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. It paid $18k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $2.9m against liabilities of $201k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 72 employees.