Maine · Nonprofit
BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,298,741 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($3,100,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,286 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way Incshared funderslocal
- Armed Services YMCA of the USAportfolio match
- Florida State Alliance of Ymcas Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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: 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $82k → $1.7M.
7 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $359k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Bangor YMCA Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 37% · 2019 40% · 2020 15% · 2021 61% · 2022 53% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“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
21% of BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $967k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 60 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way Incshared funderslocalME · backs 83 organizations that share your funders · funds 88 organizations near you
- Armed Services YMCA of the USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida State Alliance of Ymcas Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York State YMCA Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California State Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Redwoods Group Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sam L Cohen Foundationshared funderslocalME · backs 128 organizations that share your funders · funds 156 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$5.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.5M
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 BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bangor Y-Vision LLC · disregarded
- Bangor YMCA Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Maine) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,298,741 to it, the largest being STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC ($3,100,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $8,298,741 in grants to BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- STEPHEN & TABITHA KING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 60funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing