Virginia · Nonprofit
ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA
ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA (Virginia) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,731,642 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $56M
What Armed Services YMCA of the USA does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs and support for military members, spouses & families:asymca strives to increase military family resilience and mission readiness through a variety of programs and services for active duty service members, spouses and their children, with a particular focus on junior enlisted families. These programs and services help to combat stress and isolation by bringing families closer together while at home and during deployment or other separations.in 2025, the asymca served more than 398,000 military families and provided more than 1.3 million points of service through no cost and low-cost programs and services relevant to the unique challenges of military life. The following are core programs, core services, and health, wellness and recreational programs that serve and support active duty military families in communities across the country.
$15,773,053 spentof which $212,693 as grants$2,451,875 earned by the program42% of program spendingChild care programs:asymca offers a variety of affordable, accessible and high-quality child care, child development and early learning educational programs. These programs help to achieve two primary goals, which are to instill academic achievement and social emotional skills to set up military children for future success and to provide essential child care services needed to support employment and/or continuing education opportunities for military spouses. Child care, development and early learning are offered on-site through asymca branches and affiliates at child development centers, programs sites, school sites and medical treatment facilities located on or off installations.the asymca operates nationally accredited and state-licensed child care programs in the community and on military bases, which are subject to department of war requirements and inspections. A unique child care program the asymca offers inside or near military treatment facilities in 16 different locations is children's waiting room. This drop off child watch service enables service members and their spouses to attend to their own or one of their children's physical or mental health care needs without the…
$12,393,113 spentof which $167,116 as grants$5,429,153 earned by the program33% of program spendingEducational assistance programs:one of asymca's signature programs is operation little learners, a parent/child participation program that focuses on early learning education for children ages 18 months to 4 years old and helping parents with skills to be their child's first teacher. The 13-week curriculum was designed by early education experts and builds on age-appropriate activities. In addition, the program brings together military families who may have never met before, which helps create new connections and friendships, encourages sharing of resources, and combats isolation and loneliness that often comes with moving to a new city. In 2025, more than 3,000 military parents and their children participated in operation little learners. Overall, in 2025, the asymca provided more than 800,000 child care, child development and early learning points of services to military families.asymca's core programs offered at branches and affiliates include:- full day, half day and hourly child care - before and after school age care- children's waiting room drop off child watch services- preschool/pre-k- operation little learners parent participation early learning program- operation hero…
$7,135,429 spentof which $96,218 as grants$350,268 earned by the program19% of program spendingAsymca core services:research shows that one in four active duty military families report being food insecure. In response, the asymca is proud to provide a welcoming, judgment-free environment for military families to access food assistance across all 12 branches. Military families can shop at client-choice food markets where they select from shelf-stable foods, fresh and frozen items, dairy, meat and healthy options. In addition, many branches offer other basic needs including baby food, formula, diapers, and wipes, personal care items, and household cleaning supplies. In 2025, the asymca served more than 157,000 families and delivered more than 4.1 million pounds of food.asymca's core services offered at branches and affiliates include:- food assistance and baby care items - temporary emergency financial assistance- operation ride home holiday travel assistance - operation holiday joy food and toy distributions and holiday events- military spouse employment programs- operation kid comfort deployment services- financial literacy education- nutrition literacy education- volunteer opportunitiesasymca's health, wellness and recreational programsthe asymca supports the whole person…
$2,253,293 spentof which $30,385 as grants$9,282,100 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,554,888.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $29M to $88M (+206%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 6% · 2018 6% · 2019 6% · 2020 3% · 2021 22% · 2022 28% · 2023 4% · 2024 15% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
55% of ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Robert Brooks Brown Gen Usa Ret
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $848k → $1.8M.
20 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $172k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Armed Services YMCA of the USA). These are real filings, and they are not money ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA raised.
From the IRS filings of ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 38% · 2019 24% · 2020 24% · 2021 23% · 2022 47% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
- Department of Defense$1.9M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 11 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Young Men's Christian Association Retirement Fund · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA?
- ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA (Virginia) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,731,642 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($3,000,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $11,731,642 in grants to ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 71 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing