Yakima Union Gospel Mission 
The information on this page was last updated 12/8/2025. If you see errors or omissions, please email: [email protected]
Summary
Yakima Union Gospel Mission (YUGM) is dedicated to serving men, women and children experiencing homelessness with the compassion of Christ. We provide emergency, preventative, recovery, and transitional services.
In addition to the services listed above, YUGM operates the largest FREE MEDICAL CLINIC for the uninsured in the state of Washington and a dental care center that serves people on a sliding fee scale.
Contact information
Mailing address:
Yakima Union Gospel Mission
1300 N 1st Street
Yakima, WA 98901
Website: yugm.org
Phone: 509-248-4510
Email: [email protected]
Organization details
EIN: 237050061
CEO/President: Scott Thielen
Chairman: Dale Panattoni
Board size: 9
Founder:
Ruling year: 1957
Tax deductible: Yes
Fiscal year end: 06/30
Member of ECFA: Yes
Member of ECFA since: 2019
Purpose
Vision Statement: That every homeless person in Yakima County has the opportunity for permanent life transformation in Jesus Christ. To accomplish our vision we:
Offer residential Christian discipleship programs for men and women designed to address life-dominating addictions and abuse. We do this by providing spiritual and physical tools to overcome destructive life patterns and live healthy productive lives.
Provide tangible resources to those who are homeless or in jeopardy of becoming homeless with food, clothing and emergency/transitional shelter. We help provide the homeless with access to permanent supportive long-term housing providers.
Provide on-site healthcare services that benefit the poor.
Encourage literacy, education and training for employment as a means of equipping residents for self-support and stabilization.
Promote healthy lifestyles that include wholesome recreation, healthy relationships and personal accountability.
Create opportunities for donors and volunteers to use their gifts and talents to make a personal difference in the lives of those who seek help from the UGM ministries.
Develop a healthy environment in which staff, program participants, program alumni, donors and volunteers can freely interact and encourage one another.
Educate the community regarding the needs of the poor and the most effective methods of meeting those needs.
Mission statement
To follow Christ in helping people move from homelessness to wholeness.
Statement of faith
Our Faith
Since our founding, the Union Gospel Mission of Yakima has existed to bring the unique hope of Christ to people struggling on the streets. Our very existence as an organization is an expression of our faith. Over the years, we've had various ways of practically enacting our Christianity, particularly in regards to clients, partners, and employees.
In our services to clients, we love, serve, and respect people "right where they are." We follow Christ, but we don't require those we serve to do so. Spiritual care is offered, but not mandated as a condition of food or shelter.
With our volunteers and partners, there are many ways to participate. Some types of volunteers and partnerships really do require alignment of beliefs. Others may only need the absence of open disagreement. The Mission delights in being as broad a conduit of care as possible for the community.
In employment, we view all of our permanent staff as ministers of our mission, co-creators of our culture, and witnesses to the transforming power of Christ. As a community of believers centered on knowing and serving Jesus Christ, our religious beliefs, life in community and Christian values represent the heart of the Mission, informing and shaping the substance and style of all we do.
Our Beliefs
As source material, the Statement of Faith the Yakima Union Gospel Mission relies entirely upon the text of the 66 books of the Bible, the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds. As such, we believe:
The Bible alone is the inspired, infallible, authoritative and final Word of God; constituting unchanging truth for all people across time, place and culture.
That there is and has always been only one God, undivided, yet eternally existing in three co-equal persons: Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. God is love, because He lives in eternal relationship within himself.
God created humans in His image. We are therefore made for three specific personal relationships: loving God, loving oneself, and loving one's neighbor as oneself. He made humanity expressed in two complimentary and immutable sexes, male and female, each displaying features of His nature. For their joy and well-being, God commanded human sexual expression to be completely contained within the marriage of one man to one woman, equally naming every other expression sinful.
Though made without sin, humans sought to govern themselves free from God's loving guidance. They sinned, as have all persons since. Sin breaks relationship with God, self, and others, appropriately condemning humans to God's righteous judgment. But sin and separation were not God's destiny for people.
Forgiveness for our sins and reconciliation with God, self, and others is available because of Christ's substitutionary, sacrificial and atoning death on the cross. God knowingly planned this salvation for us from before creation. Only faith in Christ accesses this grace; forgiveness cannot be earned by good works.
Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human, inaugurated the inbreaking of God's Kingdom through his death and resurrection. His Church is all who have responded in faith to God's grace in Christ. He has made them heirs of his Kingdom, indwelling them by The Spirit.
The Church has been given the grace to proclaim and labor within God's expanding Kingdom of Salvation, until the Lord Jesus comes again, as He promised to do. At that time, He will judge the living and the dead, and receive His own to be with Him forever in heaven. Those who have chosen to remain separate from Him in life shall remain separate from Him eternally in Hell.
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Transparency grade
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Financial efficiency ratings
Sector: Rescue Missions/Homeless Shelters
| Category | Rating | Overall rank | Sector rank |
| Overall efficiency rating | | 167 of 1423 | 22 of 159 |
| Fund acquisition rating | | 532 of 1423 | 54 of 159 |
| Resource allocation rating | | 421 of 1423 | 40 of 159 |
| Asset utilization rating | | 128 of 1424 | 15 of 159 |
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Financial ratios
| Funding ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Return on fundraising efforts Return on fundraising efforts = Fundraising expense / Total contributions | 10% | 7% | 7% | 13% | 10% | 12% |
Fundraising cost ratio Fundraising cost ratio = Fundraising expense / Total revenue | 8% | 5% | 5% | 8% | 7% | 9% |
Contributions reliance Contributions reliance = Total contributions / Total revenue | 93% | 69% | 73% | 66% | 75% | 79% |
Fundraising expense ratio Fundraising expense ratio = Fundraising expense / Total expenses | 10% | 5% | 5% | 8% | 8% | 11% |
Other revenue reliance Other revenue reliance = Total other revenue / Total revenue | 7% | 31% | 27% | 34% | 25% | 21% |
| Operating ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Program expense ratio Program expense ratio = Program services / Total expenses | 81% | 85% | 87% | 81% | 81% | 82% |
Spending ratio Spending ratio = Total expenses / Total revenue | 97% | 101% | 108% | 102% | 87% | 83% |
Program output ratio Program output ratio = Program services / Total revenue | 79% | 86% | 94% | 82% | 71% | 69% |
Savings ratio Savings ratio = Surplus (deficit) / Total revenue | 3% | -1% | -8% | -2% | 13% | 17% |
Reserve accumulation rate Reserve accumulation rate = Surplus (deficit) / Net assets | 2% | -2% | -15% | -2% | 17% | 19% |
General and admin ratio General and admin ratio = Management and general expense / Total expenses | 9% | 10% | 8% | 11% | 10% | 6% |
| Investing ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Total asset turnover Total asset turnover = Total expenses / Total assets | 0.56 | 1.50 | 1.53 | 1.01 | 1.07 | 0.86 |
Degree of long-term investment Degree of long-term investment = Total assets / Total current assets | 3.07 | 4.50 | 4.56 | 3.92 | 2.43 | 2.97 |
Current asset turnover Current asset turnover = Total expenses / Total current assets | 2.11 | 6.77 | 6.96 | 3.95 | 2.61 | 2.57 |
| Liquidity ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Current ratio Current ratio = Total current assets / Total current liabilities | 10.24 | 4.64 | 4.73 | 7.52 | 10.34 | 7.84 |
Current liabilities ratio Current liabilities ratio = Total current liabilities / Total current assets | 0.09 | 0.22 | 0.21 | 0.13 | 0.10 | 0.13 |
Liquid reserve level Liquid reserve level = (Total current assets - Total current liabilities) / (Total expenses / 12) | 5.09 | 1.39 | 1.36 | 2.63 | 4.16 | 4.08 |
| Solvency ratios | Sector median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
Liabilities ratio Liabilities ratio = Total liabilities / Total assets | 9% | 26% | 28% | 27% | 8% | 9% |
Debt ratio Debt ratio = Debt / Total assets | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Reserve coverage ratio Reserve coverage ratio = Net assets / Total expenses | 145% | 49% | 47% | 72% | 85% | 105% |
Financials
| Balance sheet | |||||
| Assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Cash | $1,026,245 | $556,892 | $720,759 | $1,866,754 | $1,710,517 |
| Receivables, inventories, prepaids | $1,631,578 | $1,223,803 | $1,471,199 | $1,122,268 | $1,357,300 |
| Short-term investments | $215,580 | $1,149,622 | $1,639,155 | $2,006,291 | $407,292 |
| Other current assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current assets | $2,873,403 | $2,930,317 | $3,831,113 | $4,995,313 | $3,475,109 |
| Long-term investments | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Fixed assets | $7,004,187 | $7,346,187 | $7,543,796 | $6,704,804 | $6,326,422 |
| Other long-term assets | $3,052,137 | $3,076,975 | $3,655,554 | $438,927 | $511,835 |
| Total long-term assets | $10,056,324 | $10,423,162 | $11,199,350 | $7,143,731 | $6,838,257 |
| Total assets | $12,929,727 | $13,353,479 | $15,030,463 | $12,139,044 | $10,313,366 |
| Liabilities | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Payables and accrued expenses | $618,768 | $619,580 | $509,729 | $483,088 | $443,162 |
| Other current liabilities | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total current liabilities | $618,768 | $619,580 | $509,729 | $483,088 | $443,162 |
| Debt | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Due to (from) affiliates | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Other long-term liabilities | $2,775,069 | $3,114,011 | $3,553,516 | $542,292 | $521,685 |
| Total long-term liabilities | $2,775,069 | $3,114,011 | $3,553,516 | $542,292 | $521,685 |
| Total liabilities | $3,393,837 | $3,733,591 | $4,063,245 | $1,025,380 | $964,847 |
| Net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Without donor restrictions | $8,943,945 | $9,247,095 | $10,634,695 | $8,561,131 | $8,429,939 |
| With donor restrictions | $591,945 | $372,793 | $332,523 | $2,552,533 | $918,580 |
| Net assets | $9,535,890 | $9,619,888 | $10,967,218 | $11,113,664 | $9,348,519 |
| Revenues and expenses | |||||
| Revenue | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Total contributions | $13,256,979 | $13,839,317 | $9,831,443 | $11,159,537 | $8,451,621 |
| Program service revenue | $113,874 | $108,355 | $118,047 | $96,085 | $327,984 |
| Membership dues | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Investment income | $859,892 | $60,198 | $363,063 | ($107,705) | $15,625 |
| Other revenue | $5,033,836 | $4,892,664 | $4,565,050 | $3,806,217 | $1,896,920 |
| Total other revenue | $6,007,602 | $5,061,217 | $5,046,160 | $3,794,597 | $2,240,529 |
| Total revenue | $19,264,581 | $18,900,534 | $14,877,603 | $14,954,134 | $10,692,150 |
| Expenses | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Program services | $16,606,382 | $17,734,855 | $12,225,896 | $10,615,222 | $7,352,591 |
| Management and general | $1,960,982 | $1,654,075 | $1,678,449 | $1,328,377 | $574,888 |
| Fundraising | $878,633 | $1,001,267 | $1,232,899 | $1,082,936 | $990,692 |
| Total expenses | $19,445,997 | $20,390,197 | $15,137,244 | $13,026,535 | $8,918,171 |
| Change in net assets | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Surplus (deficit) | ($181,416) | ($1,489,663) | ($259,641) | $1,927,599 | $1,773,979 |
| Other changes in net assets | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Total change in net assets | ($181,416) | ($1,489,663) | ($259,641) | $1,927,599 | $1,773,979 |
Compensation
| Name | Title | Compensation |
| Mike Johnson | Chief Executive Officer (thru 08/24) | $174,683 |
| Kristi Trickett | Medical Clinic Director | $174,198 |
| Autumn Bernier | VP of Analytics & Enterprise | $150,989 |
| Scott Thielen | Chief Executive Officer | $96,426 |
Compensation data as of: 6/30/2025
Response from ministry
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History
Program accomplishments
See impact and outcomes here: https://yugm.org/impact-outcomes/