· Public charity
Virginia Alliance of Ymcas
Throughout the commonwealth the alliance brings virginia y's together to improve the effectiveness and capacity of ymcas to better serve their members and communities in the commonwealth of virginia through key initiatives and programs at a statewide level.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $548k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $150,000 |
| YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS | $110,000 |
| RAPPAHANNOCK AREA YMCA | $110,000 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA | $101,625 |
| ALLEGHANY HIGHLANDS YMCA | $76,666 |
| YMCA OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| ALTAVISTA AREA YMCA | $11,625 |
| VIRGINIA YMCA | $10,175 |
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 (FY21–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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 MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA4× · 2021–2024 · $797k · revenue +24%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads4× · 2021–2024 · $723k · revenue +32%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)4× · 2021–2024 · $714k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- FYFAMILY YMCA ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +537%
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.
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…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Our mission is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice though programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA of Greensboro is a volunteer-led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages,…
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 shasta family ymca strengthens community through programs and activities that create a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Spiritual, social & physical developmentment of community
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 young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…
At the ymca of virginia's blue ridge, we believe a strong community can only be achieved when we invest in our kids, our health and our neighbors. that's why our association of men, women and children is committed to bringing about lasting…
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,…
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,…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of Central Virginia and the most unlike its peers is Family Ymca of Emporia-Greensville Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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 MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK AREA YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Alleghany Highlands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Family YMCA of Emporia-Greensville Inc ↗
- Who funds BEDFORD AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds Altavista Area YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YMCA ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Virginia 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.
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