North Carolina · Nonprofit
Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc
Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,832,008 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,570,860). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.8M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.8M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc does
Mission
To put Christian principles into practice through programs and services that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Putting Christian principles into practice through programs designed for people of all ages, abilities, faiths, ethnic groups and incomes. Cleveland County Family YMCA offers a welcoming atmosphere where participants feel comfortable and receive the support they need to improve their physical, mental, and spiritual health. The Cleveland County Family YMCA programs help develop self-esteem and self-confidence, building lasting relationships, and increased civic engagement. Services are offered at affordable fees for the community at large, with financial assistance available for those who cannot afford the full fee.
$4,074,999 spent63% of program spendingMembership/Wellness/Disease PreventionThe YMCA views health holisticallyrecognizing that true wellness includes spirit, mind, and body. Our YMCA has identified rising obesity and diabetes rates in our state as critical social issues that must be addressed. Programs such as Livestrong at the YMCA, Enhance Fitness, Moving for Better Balance, and Diabetes Prevention are designed to help individuals develop healthy new life skills. These programs encourage self-improvement and disease prevention through active lifestyles, proper nutrition, stress management, and health education.At the YMCA, we promote interaction, teamwork, moral and ethical development, social skills, and self-esteem. We serve people of all ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and religions, and we provide financial assistance to anyone who demonstrates genuine need. In 2025, we served more than 17,000 individuals in our community and provided over $75,000 in membership and program assistance opportunities.
$907,575 spent$3,001,420 earned by the program14% of program spendingHealthy Child Care and Safety ProgramsThe YMCA childcare programs provide high-quality care and enrichment opportunities for preschool and school-age children from all segments of our community. We offer a variety of full-time and part-time childcare programs that create a safe, nurturing environment where children, youth, and teens can develop self-esteem, positive values, and an appreciation for serving others.The YMCA works closely with local agencies, churches, and schools to ensure that no child is turned away because of an inability to pay. In fact, up to 60% of participants receive financial assistance. Strengthening families is woven into the fabric of the YMCA mission, and our childcare programs are intentionally designed to support the whole child and the family unit.Our programs include devotions, homework assistance, community service projects, educational field trips, and healthy lifestyle training. All activities are grounded in the YMCAs core character values of caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, and faith. We also collaborate with community partners such as Cleveland County Schools, Communities In Schools, Atrium Health, and Cleveland County Government.In…
$806,477 spent$1,060,690 earned by the program13% of program spendingChildren, Youth, Adult Sports and AquaticsYMCA programs extend far beyond the four walls of our facilities. We are committed partners in building strong communities for both members and non-members alike. Through inclusive sports, physical activity, and aquatics programming, the YMCA promotes healthy living and community connection for the entire family.The philosophy behind our Sports and Aquatics programs is uniquely centered on youth development and positive experiences. We are committed to providing quality programs in a fun, family-oriented environment built on the principles of everyone plays, balanced teams, positive coaching, and good sportsmanship. In addition, the YMCA provides free second-grade water safety instruction to students in 12 elementary schools throughout our community.Participation is open to anyone who demonstrates interest and enthusiasm. YMCA Sports and Aquatics programs serve as valuable tools for physical, mental, and emotional development while helping participants build new skills, learn teamwork, win with humility, lose with pride, and form lasting relationships. Our goal is for every child and adult to reach their full potential mentally,…
$647,545 spent$336,114 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,436,596.
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 2024 to 2025, from $17M to $18M (+6%).
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.
18% of Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Cameron Corder
CEO
Board chair
Jeff Ledford
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $148k → $97k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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: $62k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Healthcare Foundation of Cleveland County). These are real filings, and they are not money Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 96% · 2019 93% · 2020 36% · 2021 40% · 2022 66% · 2023 54% — 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
38% of Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
69% of Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,623 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Cleveland County 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc?
- Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,832,008 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($2,570,860). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,832,008 in grants to Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $2,570,860 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 21 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