Illinois · Nonprofit
DIXON FAMILY YMCA
DIXON FAMILY YMCA (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,800 to it, the largest being KATHERINE SHAW BETHEA HOSPITAL ($161,360). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $340k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Dixon Family YMCA does
Mission
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
The organization undertook a significant increase in expenses to prepare for the opening of a new childcare center, which didn't open until january of 2025.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Aquatics - the ymca offers a variety of aquatic programs from 6 months of age to adults. The ymca aquatic programs offer a place to belong, people who care, activities that build skills, and assets. Ymca doors are open to kids and adults with all levels of abilities, and to people of all ages, income, races, and religions. Caring staff teach and encourage everyone to achieve his or her personal best. With a variety of programs for adult, preschool, youth and parent/child classes. The categories include: water fitness, senior and adult lap swim, swim lessons and swim team. The swim team consists of children from the ages of five to twenty one. The team competes mainly against other ymca's. Every program is designed to help participants build specific skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. The aquatic department provides open swim and lap swim to the safety and well-being of participants in aquatic activities in the pool area. Financial assistance is available for those who cannot afford to pay.
$218,814 spent$164,702 earned by the program12% of program spendingHealth and well-being for all - the ymca views health holistically. A healthy person has unity of body, mind and spirit. The ymca has identified the growing national obesity rates in this country as a critical social issue that must be addressed and our health and well-being programs are designed to help people develop new skills and grow in spirit, mind and body by setting realistic goals for self improvement and disease prevention through an active lifestyle, proper nutrition, stress management, and health education. Ymca programs promote interaction, teamwork, and development of moral and ethical behavior, social skills and self esteem. We serve all ages, abilities, races, nationalities and religions and provide financial assistance to those who need it.
$765,587 spent$576,259 earned by the program41% of program spendingChild care - our child care programs offer high quality child care activities for preschool and school age children from all segments of our community. We offer a variety of state licensed childcare programs, both full and part-time, which provide a safe and nurturing environmentwhere youth can develop self-esteem, good values and an appreciation of charitable service. Woven into the fabric of the ymca's mission is a commitment to strengthening families. Financial assistance is available for those who cannot afford to pay.
$899,984 spent$677,421 earned by the program48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,884,385.
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.
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 $4.0M to $4.3M (+7%).
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 3% · 2020 20% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 8% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
James Mcfarlane
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $20k → $22k.
1 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $154k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Lee County Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DIXON FAMILY YMCA raised.
From the IRS filings of DIXON FAMILY YMCA’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
DIXON FAMILY YMCA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 DIXON FAMILY YMCA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 50% · 2022 76% · 2023 91% — 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
40% of DIXON FAMILY YMCA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
98% of DIXON FAMILY YMCA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $305 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like DIXON FAMILY YMCA
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 Illinois
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIXON FAMILY YMCA: 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 DIXON FAMILY YMCA?
- DIXON FAMILY YMCA (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $339,800 to it, the largest being KATHERINE SHAW BETHEA HOSPITAL ($161,360). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIXON FAMILY YMCA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $339,800 in grants to DIXON FAMILY YMCA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIXON FAMILY YMCA?
- KATHERINE SHAW BETHEA HOSPITAL is the largest funder on record, with $161,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIXON FAMILY YMCA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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