Montana · Nonprofit
BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC
BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC (Montana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,091,276 to it, the largest being THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION ($365,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.6M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Billings Family YMCA Inc does
Mission
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Here in billings, the y is a leading voice on health and wellbeing. We offer free sixweek commit tobe fit classes open to anyone in the community. These classes include personalized fitness instruction tohealth seekers in a small, private group setting and a complimentary y membership throughout their course.the billings family ymca offers over 100 group exercise classes each week for all ages and skill levels. Classesinclude: cycling, yoga, pilates, bootcamp, kickboxing, nia, zumba, turbokick, muscle momentum, silverfitness, and group power. Our aquatics department offers a variety of activities geared towards healthy living as well. These activities include: over 20 weekly water exercise classes, swim lessons for all ages, open family swims, lap swimming, junior and competitive swim teams, and lifeguard training. Nearly one thousand kids learn to swim at the billings family ymca each year. Additionally, the y is pleased to offer a 16-week diabetes and heart disease prevention program in partnership with st. Vincent healthcare.
$1,040,866 spent$1,111,488 earned by the program26% of program spendingThe y fosters connections through fitness, sports, fun and shared interests. The ymca youth sports program helps children become not only better players, but better people as well. At the y, everybody plays and everybody wins. Children learn the fundamentals in their chosen sport, as well as the value of teamwork and sportsmanship. Youth programs and activities include: basketball, floor hockey, soccer, volleyball, t-ball, flag football, ballet, hip hop dance, cheerleading, karate and track and field. The ymca adult sports program offers a variety of leagues in the following sports: basketball, volleyball, futsal soccer and dodgeball. Outside of structured leagues, our facility is open to a variety of sporting activities that adults, children and families can enjoy throughout the day including: pickleball, racquetball, handball, volleyball, wally ball, swimming and basketball.
$324,107 spent$346,097 earned by the program8% of program spendingAt the y, strengthening community is our cause. Through the support of our community, we empower every child, adult and family to achieve to be healthy, confident and connected. Through our financial assistance program we make sure that everyone, regardless of age, income or background, has the opportunity to learn, grow and thrive and that no one is turned away due to an inability to pay. We believe that all kids deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. That is why, through the y's child care services, hundreds of youth today are cultivating the values, skills and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, better health and educational achievement. Our child care services include: childwatch, afterschool care, summer camps, preschool and family sports activities.livestrong at the ymca is a free program open to all cancer survivors. This 12-week program fulfills the important need of supporting the increasing number of cancer survivors who find themselves in the transition period between completing their cancer treatment and the shift to returning to their everyday lives.
$2,705,156 spent$2,888,699 earned by the program66% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,070,129.
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 2020 to 2021, from $9.7M to $12M (+21%).
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 1% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 23% · 2022 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Kim Kaiser
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $86k → $377k.
8 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 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
BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
33% 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 BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 33% · 2019 25% · 2020 48% · 2021 35% · 2022 43% · 2023 32% — 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
42% of BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Montana, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $312k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC
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 Montana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC?
- BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC (Montana) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,091,276 to it, the largest being THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION ($365,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $2,091,276 in grants to BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC?
- THE MARY ALICE FORTIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BILLINGS FAMILY YMCA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Montana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 35 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing