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Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area

It is the mission of the YMCA of Greater Houston to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

$5.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$4.1MYouth Development$1.1MPublic Benefit$83kArts & Culture$38kCommunity Improvement$30kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $26,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,632,575 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $5,606,075 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$16,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$271M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The CYNTHIA W MITCHELL Pavilion$16,500
PARKS AT BEARING HOMEOWNERS ASSOC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%YMCA of The Grtr Twin Cities: $50k → 11%BakerRipley: $50k → 16%YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly: $260k → 12%YMCA of the USA: $40k → 14%YMCA of Twin Cities: $20k → 11%YMCA Endowment: $1.8M → 16%YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly: $15k → 12%Natnl Council of YMCA USA: $25k → 14%YMCA Endowment: $843k → 16%YMCA of the USA: $20k → 14%YMCA Endowment: $371k → 16%YMCA of Greater Houston Endow Fd: $632k → 16%YMCA Endowment: $24k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 5 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area Endowment Foun dation
    5× · 2017–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +63% · 69% of their budget
  • YB
    YMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $275k · revenue +64%
  • National Council of YMCAs of the USA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +20%
  • CO
    CITY OF HOUSTON
    one grant, 2018 · $76k
  • PF
    Partnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugeesgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue +64%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
2
Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber's mission is to provide leadership that facilitates the creation of a prosperous regional economy and results in effective advocacy for its members.

—
3
Nexus Youth and Families

Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…

Human Services
4
Ywca Metropolitan Phoenix

YWCA Metropolitan Phoenix is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.

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5
Pool and Hot Tub Alliance

The alliance is organized as a business league to promote safe, healthful and enjoyable usage of pools, hot tubs and recreational water facilities and to promote the pool and spa industry generally.

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6
Ohio Alliance of Ymca's

We are a grassroots driven and governed organization that advocates and educates on behalf of the YMCAs and its mission, upholding the four core YMCA values of caring, honestly, respect, and responsibility. The Alliance also fosters…

Community Improvement
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
8
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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9
Houston Museum of Natural Science

The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Public

Through bold leadership, Greater Public (GP) inspires and empowers public media organizations to advance their missions by ensuring a sustainable financial future.

—
11
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis

The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

Human Services
12
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St Louis Inc

To inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the boys and girls clubs of greater st. louis provides recreational, athletic and educational facilities for youth in…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Council of YMCAs of the Usa; the most unlike its peers is The Park At Glen Arbor Homeowners. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Young Mens Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area Endowment Foun dation: $3,655,945 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area Endowment Foun dationYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC: $275,000 · Human ServicesYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC+3 more: $205,000 · Human ServicesBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs …CITY OF HOUSTON: $76,297 · OtherPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees: $66,866 · OtherHOUSTON HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE WOODLANDS: $33,000 · Arts & CultureSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 · HealthTHE PARK AT GLEN ARBOR HOMEOWNERS: $10,000 · Community ImprovementNational Congress of Black Women Inc: $6,500 · Public Benefit
Human Services$4,135,945Youth Development$1,000,000Other$168,163Arts & Culture$33,000Health$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Public Benefit$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area Endowment Foun dation: $3,655,945 over 5y, 69% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetYMCA BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY INC: $275,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetNational Council of YMCAs of the USA: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership For The Advancement And Immersion Of Refugees: $66,866 over 1y, 12% of budgetBakerRipley: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AT THE WOODLANDS: $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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