· Public charity
California State Alliance of Ymcas
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What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $686k
- $250k+2 grants · $6.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES | $5,359,362 |
| YMCA OF GREATER LONG BEACH | $724,482 |
| YMCA OF GREATER WHITTIER | $110,368 |
| SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY YMCA | $93,099 |
| YMCA OF GLENDALE | $69,849 |
| CENTRAL COAST YMCA | $67,744 |
| CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA | $64,181 |
| BURBANK COMMUNITY YMCA | $61,638 |
| YMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS | $59,153 |
| SANTA MONICA FAMILY YMCA | $57,980 |
| SHASTA FAMILY YMCA | $52,046 |
| YMCA OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY | $50,000 |
| SONOMA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA | $47,088 |
| SISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA | $43,925 |
| YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY | $39,513 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 85% of California State Alliance of Ymcas’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 14% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY2× · 2023–2024 · $195k · revenue +40%
- YOYMCA OF GREATER WHITTIER2× · 2023–2024 · $183k · revenue +13%
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY2× · 2023–2024 · $181k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANAone grant, 2023 · $94k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…
The mission of the YMCA is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. We are an inclusive organization, serving all people regardless of background, religion, beliefs,…
The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…
The mission of the brainerd family ymca is to enhance the lives in the brainerd lakes area by connecting individuals and families with opportunities based on christian values that build a healthy spirit, mind, & body.
The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the y mission is also to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development,…
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
Community can only be achieved when we invest in our kids, our health and our neighbors well-being. financial assistance is available to any person who cannot afford to pay the full price for any ymca program or membership. all ymca…
The montgomery ymca, reflecting its judeo-christian heritage, is an association of volunteers, members, and staff open to and serving all, providing programs and services which develop spirit, mind, and body. montgomery ymca statement of…
The miami county ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races, and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, families and communities by…
The mission of the lake county ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Siskiyou Family Ymca Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 70 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LONG BEACH ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER WHITTIER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEAST VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COUNTY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GLENDALE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds WEST END YMCA ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY YMCA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WEST SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds CORONANORCO FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Superior California ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Council of YMCAs of the USA · California Community Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · Share Our Strength · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization California State Alliance of Ymcas funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.