Iowa · Nonprofit
FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA
FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,996 to it, the largest being MBI-WORKS ENDOWMENT ($106,050). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $271k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Forest City Family YMCA does
Mission
Our ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every person. The Forest City Family YMCA puts christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. The Forest City Family YMCA provides programs, activities, facilities, and equipment for all people. The ymca welcomes everyone regardless of age, race, sex, ethnicity, ability, or religion. Membership dues are based on community affordability and financial assistance is available for those who cannot afford to pay the full cost of membership. We accomplish our mission everyday by offering programs that help to develop the characteristics of caring, responsibility, honesty, and respect. We do this by having y staff members model and demonstrate these core values in their interactions with all participants. We are a volunteer-directed organization and as such no individual profits monetarily because of our operations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development - our ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen. We believe all kids have great potential and deserve the opportunity to discover who they are and what they can achieve. That is why we help young people cultivate the values, skills and relationships that lead to positive behaviors, better health and education achievement. Our ymca programs, such as youth sports and child care, offer a range of experiences that enrich social-emotional, cognitive and physical growth. Expenses include subsidies and direct financial assistance that make participation possible for 12 percent of the young people we engage. Social responsibility - our ymca believes in giving back and supporting our neighbors. We have been listening and responding to our community's most critical social needs for more than 30 years. Our child care program has grown in the past couple of years in response to community need. We offer three sites for infants through upper elementaryaged youth. Our newly developed steams (science, technology, engineering, arts, math and skilled labor) programming continues to provide opportunities for all middle-school-aged youth to explore new and…
$307,264 spent$252,435 earned by the program25% of program spendingHealthy living - the y is committed to improving america's health and well-being, community by community. We bring families closer together, encourage good health and foster connections through fitness, sports, fun and shared interests. As a result, over 4,000, people in our community are receiving the support, guidance and resources they need to achieve greater health in spirit, mind and body. This is particularly important as our nation struggles with chronic disease and obesity, families wrestle with work/life balance and individuals search for personal fulfillment. Our programs are accessible affordable and open to all faiths, backgrounds, abilities and income levels.
$307,264 spentof which $10,001 as grants$252,435 earned by the program25% of program spendingSocial responsibility - our ymca believes in giving back and supporting our neighbors. We have been listening and responding to our community's most critical social needs for more than 30 years. Our child care program has grown in the past couple of years in response to community need. We offer three sites for infants through upper elementaryaged youth. Our newly developed steams (science, technology, engineering, arts, math and skilled labor) programming continues to provide opportunities for all middle-school-aged youth to explore new and creative programs. The y believes all youth should have some sort of water safety as a safety measure, but also because swimming is a life long skill.
$614,526 spent$504,869 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,229,054.
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 2021 to 2022, from $4.5M to $4.0M (−10%).
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 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Tasha Banta
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $250 → $17k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 FOREST CITY 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
FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 57% — 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
50% of FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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
74% of FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like FOREST CITY 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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA?
- FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA (Iowa) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $270,996 to it, the largest being MBI-WORKS ENDOWMENT ($106,050). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $270,996 in grants to FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA?
- MBI-WORKS ENDOWMENT is the largest funder on record, with $106,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOREST CITY FAMILY YMCA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing