· Public charity
Young Men's Christian Association Retirement Fund
The mission of the YMCA Retirement Fund is to partner with YMCAs to help those who serve others build a foundation for financial security in retirement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $175,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $311,405 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $136,405 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARMED SERVICES YMCA | $112,500 |
| YMCA OF THE USA | $30,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE YMCA | $22,500 |
| YMCA ALUMNI | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ASARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA9× · 2017–2025 · $923k · revenue +120%
National Council of YMCAs of the USA4× · 2022–2025 · $180k · revenue +67%- YAYMCA ALUMNI6× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +216%
Funded once
- YOYMCA OF THE USAone grant, 2021 · $50k
- AOASSOCIATION OF YMCA PROFESSIONALSone grant, 2021 · $25k
- YAYMCA ALUMNIone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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…
Ymca programs meet community needs and promote community health and wellness. each year we deliver more than $3 million worth of subsidized services to needy children, adults and families.
We work side-by-side with our neighbors to make sure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive.
Building a community where all people, especially the young, are encouraged to develop their fullest potential in spirit, mind, and body. strategic goals: *provide opportunities for youth and young adults that shape values and encourage…
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.
The new canaan community ymca's mission is to enrich all people in spirit, mind and body. we are committed to providing programs and services that promote youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility among our members and…
The ymca is a charitable association dedicated to building healthy body, mind, and spirit
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
The armed services ymca enhances the lives of military members and their families in spirit, mind and body through programs relevant to the unique challenge of military life.
The mission of the summit area ymca is to strengthen the foundations of community by nurturing and developing the potential of every child, promoting healthy living and fostering a sense of social responsibility in the community.
The young men's christian association of metropolitan washington (ymca) responds to critical youth, teen and family issues with therapeutic, counseling and developmental programs, including truancy prevention, teen pregnancy counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Armed Services Ymca of the Usa and the most unlike its peers is Springfield College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YMCA ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF YMCA PROFESSIONALS ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA STATE ALLIANCE OF YMCAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIOUX YMCA ↗
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 · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Young Men's Christian Association Retirement Fund 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.
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
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.