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DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA
DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,592 to it, the largest being MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION ($8,797). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $715k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $522k
What Downtown Association of Yakima does
Mission
The Downtown Association of Yakima (DAY) exists to make the City of Yakima's urban core the premier place to live, work, and play. Primary activities are a facade restoration program, monthly educational breakfast meetings, free summer evening concerts, operation of a weekly Farmers' Market, maintenance of hanging flower baskets and street-level container plantings, removal of garbage and grafitti, and offering activities and advice to boost downtown's safety, appearance, economic activity, and appeal.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hanging Baskets & Flowers; The Association maintains 290 flower baskets which hang from the city-owned street-lamp poles. DAY owns the basket containers, the City of Yakima buys the flowers, and then DAY maintains each basket on a daily basis by monitoring and/or repairing irrigation lines, repairing vandalism, replacing plants that do not thrive, and fertilizing. DAY also plants and maintains (in a similar manner as with the hanging baskets) annuals and perennials in about 360 street-level concrete pots and planters permanently placed all around the downtown core. Expenses may seem low, but the bulk of cost for this program is in the staff labor, which is more accurately reported in the overall downtown maintenance program described below. There is also a considerable amount of volunteer labor from adjacent business owners and other DAY volunteers.
$9,828 spent$43,750 earned by the program2% of program spendingDowntown Maintenance: Under a contract awarded to DAY by the City of Yakima, business and propery owners in a downtown special assessment district pay mandated fees to the City of Yakima for extra services, which DAY provides and is reimbursed for by the City of Yakima from these specially collected fees. These extra services include a daily pick-up and removal of garbage from city-owned receptacles as well as directly off the sidewalks, streets, and gutters; the maintenance of permanent ground-level shubbery qnd plants; the removal of snow from sidewalk/street intersections; the monitoring an removal of all grafitti; assistance in managing issues of homelessness; the the pruning and lighting of street trees; advice to businesses on CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; and works closely with the City of Yakima's Departments of Public Services and Parks in all ways which promote health, safety, and positive downtown experiences. NOTE: This program area typically reports more expenses than revenue as DAY subsidizes the work of the City contract with funds from other sources. However, 2021 remained unusual in that the rolling quarantine lockdowns and guidelines…
$194,709 spent$175,000 earned by the program31% of program spendingFarmers' Market: DAY operated a Farmers' Market for 21 consecutive Sundays from May 23-October 1o (this was a shorter season than normal as directed by the State Department of Health due to the pandemic), The Market is certified by the Washington State Farmers' Market Association, which requires the inspection of farms to ensure the produce is grown locally with proper health and safety features. Normally, there are also vendors who sell their own handicrafts (i.e. no resale or mass-produced items are allowed), but this was not allowed iin the beginning of the 2021 season. The Market was self-sustaining financially in 2021due to a one-time $20,000 pandemic grant from the WA State Farmers Market Association. This may not be the case in 2022, but the Market will continue with funds from other sources in DAY because a functioning market is important to the health and appeal of downtown.
$83,855 spent$90,784 earned by the program13% of program spendingSpecial Events: DAY offers a number of downtown events which have a threefold mission--to attract people to visit and enjoy downtown, to encourage people to patronize downtown businesses, and to raise revenue to support the overall organizational mission. These events included a series of free summer evening concerts; a wine, food, & music festival in June; and "Sip & Stroll" at which people are encouraged to get samples of locally-produced beer and wine while shopping at downtown businesses, a facade restoration grant program, a Chalk Art Festival, a Community Christmas Tree Lighting & Decorating program, and a very successful Small Business Saturday promotion. In addition, there were one-time expenses for street lighting, pruning, and electrical upgrades.
$343,583 spent$226,576 earned by the program54% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $631,975.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $243k to $477k (+96%).
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: 2020 19% · 2021 26% · 2022 9% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Curtis Wilson
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $204 → $591.
1 of 4 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.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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
DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 51% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA is better cushioned than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA?
- DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,592 to it, the largest being MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION ($8,797). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $9,592 in grants to DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA?
- MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,797 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF YAKIMA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 4 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