How much did National Council of YMCAs of the USA grant in FY2024?

National Council of YMCAs of the USA reported 540 grants totaling $47,387,410 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is National Council of YMCAs of the USA based?

National Council of YMCAs of the USA is based in IL.

National Council of YMCAs of the USA

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· Public charity

National Council of YMCAs of the USA

Ymca of the usa (y-usa) is the national resource office for the nation's nearly 2,600 ys, which strengthen community by nurturing the potential of kids, promoting healthy living for all and fostering social responsibility.

$47M

Granted FY2024

540

Grants

Communities

$800k

Largest

01What you fund

0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$190MRecreation & Sports$2.6MYouth Development$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.9MEducation$956kReligion$480kCommunity Improvement$98kHousing & Shelter$15kOther$89M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

sccsarasotachild welfarecontractedshelterhippycareer

2019

champaignsccchild welfareachieve fullpersons regardlessbranchcontracted

2020

values interactiondenied membershiponeontasilver bayfultonfitgiving skills

2021

licensedchristian concordsessions membersadult sportscamp tecumsehcampers guestsstem

2022

alumnifultonwallawaldomount desertcamp lincolnbloomington-normal

2023

alumniinspire life-longcassbody coreymca-cnwclassesdesert

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 540 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k35 grants · $243k
$10k–50k211 grants · $5.9M
$50k–250k263 grants · $27M
$250k+31 grants · $11M

$55,000

Median grant

States reached

$260M

Total assets

Largest grants

Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA$799,726
YMCA of Greater Indianapolis$546,967
YMCA of Metropolitan Atlanta Inc$535,188
Metropolitan Augusta YMCA$503,437
Austin Metropolitan YMCA$433,423
YMCA of San Diego County$422,515
Florida's First Coast YMCA - Metropolitan$388,891
Crossroads YMCA Inc$377,643
Armed Services YMCA of the USA-National Hdqtrs$375,000
YMCA of Greater Long Beach$373,967
Central Connecticut Coast YMCA$362,967
YMCA of Greater Seattle$348,400
YMCA of Central Maryland$344,939
Valley of the Sun YMCA$330,900
Central Bucks Family YMCA$320,186

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $123.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$285M · 656 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

656 repeat relationships — 503 still active in FY2024, 153 since wound down; 37 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

656

Total granted

$285M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+16%

Still filing today

97%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyReligionOther

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

EP
El Paso Armed Services YMCA
7× · 2017–2024 · $28M · revenue +64%
IA
Indiana Alliance of YMCAs
3× · 2022–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +142%
YO
YMCA of Greater Seattle
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +38%

Funded once

MF
MCS Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -16%
LV
Ligonier Valley YMCAgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $107k · revenue +154%
TY
Topeka YMCA Foundation
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -100% · 50% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Young Mens Christian Association of

Spiritual, social & physical developmentment of community

Human Services

Young Men's Christian Association

The ymca is a charitable association dedicated to building healthy body, mind, and spirit

Human Services

Young Men's Christian Association

The grand island ymca's mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the ymca makes accessible the support and opportunities that empower people and communities to…

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Wayne County Young Men's Christian Association

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services

Young Mens Christian Association of

The parkersburg ymca is a charitable community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, income, races, and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and strong…

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Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Waukesha County Inc

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy mind, spirit, and body

Recreation & Sports

Young Men's Christian Association

Carlisle family ymca is a charitable community service organization that offers programs designed for men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, ethnic groups and religions. our ymca was founded by volunteers, is led by…

Human Services

Young Mens Christian Association of Scottsbluff

To help people develop a healthy spirit, mind, and body through the use of volunteers and professional staff. the ymca uses christian principles to develop affordable programs that strengthen and enrich individual and family lives, and…

Human Services

Young Mens Christian Association of the

The young men's christian association of the prairie was organized to work in cooperation with others to enhance the spiritual, social, mental, and physical life of the members of the community through health and fitness programs that…

Health

Young Men's Christian Association

To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

Human Services

Young Mens Christian Association

The big spring family ymca is dedicated to building mind, body, and a christian spirit through quality programs and services.

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Young Men's Christian Association

The ymca of van wert county was organized as a local unit of the national ymca organization. the ymca is a worldwide fellowship, united by a common loyalty to jesus christ, for the purpose of developing chtistian character and building a…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Assoc and the most unlike its peers is Mcs Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 67 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.7%5/752

the rest of the field

11%

206,160/1,818,813

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.

05the grantee network

743 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

188

Early backer (in before they grew)

714/743

Grantees still filing

587/743

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$190,463,047Other$89,356,415Recreation & Sports$2,637,028Youth Development$2,307,163Philanthropy$1,909,553Education$955,664Religion$480,296

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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

USA Swimming Foundation IncCO93.4× affinity76 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: USA Swimming Foundation Inc · New York State YMCA Foundation Inc · Young Mens Christian Association of San Francisco · The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc · Parkinson's Foundation Inc · Indiana Alliance of Ymcas · North Carolina Alliance of Ymcas · State Alliance of Michigan YMCA (0050) · Armed Services YMCA of the USA · Florida State Alliance of Ymcas · California State Alliance of YMCAs · Virginia Alliance of Ymcas

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 organisation National Council of YMCAs of the USA 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

36get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Topeka YMCA Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8966 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 480835338 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Topeka YMCA Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8966 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to National Council of YMCAs of the USA?

Find your warmest path to National Council of YMCAs of the USA through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines