California · Nonprofit
Golden State YMCA
Golden State YMCA (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $688,383 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($233,321). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $688k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Golden State YMCA does
Mission
The Golden State YMCA: To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Camps - the Organization believes camping services enable families and children to come together while living simply, close to nature and each other, so that the experience might renew the respect for the world around, inspire the recommitment to family and friends, and families and children may rejoice in the spirit of love. The Organization operates five summer resident camps at Sequoia Lake. These camps offer residential youth, family, and skate camping programs that deliver experiential, age appropriate activities for youth and families. Vacant weeks are currently filled by non-profit rental groups providing their own programming while Golden State YMCA provides the space and program support services. YMCA programs are for all. The Organization develops the financial resources through charitable contributions to operate under and convey the motto, No one is turned away for an inability to pay.
$2,564,908 spent$2,418,199 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,564,908.
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 $1.8M to $2.7M (+53%).
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.
19% of Golden State 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. 1 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
Simon Helyer
CEO
Board chair
Phil Dixon
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $67k → $106k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 Golden State 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
Golden State YMCA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 Golden State YMCA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 100% · 2019 47% · 2020 96% · 2021 53% · 2022 41% · 2023 36% — 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
33% of Golden State 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
Golden State YMCA draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $231k 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
Golden State YMCA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Golden State 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sequoia Lake Conference of YMCAs · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Golden State 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 Golden State YMCA?
- Golden State YMCA (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $688,383 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($233,321). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Golden State YMCA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $688,383 in grants to Golden State YMCA, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Golden State YMCA?
- National Council of YMCAs of the USA is the largest funder on record, with $233,321 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Golden State YMCA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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