Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA
GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,048,486 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($939,474). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Greater Wyoming Valley Area YMCA does
Mission
The Greater Wyoming Valley Area YMCA (gwva ymca) is a volunteer led public charity that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy body, mind, and spirit for all. This ymca promotes healthy lifestyles, stronger families, develops leadership in youth, builds international understanding, assists in community development and is sensitive to community changes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development programs - the gwva ymca's youth development programs offer high quality activities for preschool and school age children from all segments of the community. The gwva ymca offers a variety of state licensed childcare programs, both full and part-time, which provide a safe and nurturing environment where youth can develop self-esteem, good values, and an appreciation of charitable service. Woven into the fabric of the ymca mission is a commitment to strengthening families. The wv ymca's childcare programs include counseling of troubled youth and parents, dealing with runaway teenagers, assisting child victims of physical and sexual abuse, and programs that help parents learn more about how to raise children that are happy and healthy in spirit, mind, and body. The gwva ymca partners with other community agencies such as the united way,community foundations, and government agencies so that financial assistance is available for those who cannot afford to pay.
$4,654,116 spent$4,031,737 earned by the program56% of program spendingHealth and well being for all programs - the gwva ymca views health holistically: a healthy person has unity of body, mind and spirit. The wv 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. Gwva ymca programs promote interaction, teamwork, and development of moral and ethical behavior, social skills, and self esteem. The wv ymca serves all ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and religions and provides financial assistance to those who need it. The wv ymca is the largest youth service agency in the wyoming valley area of pennsylvania. It is visited daily by approximately 1,500 people of which half are children. Healthy kids' day activities and youth fitness programs are now part of the gwva ymca activities for children. Youth programs include before and after-school and evening programs that are designed to keep children, ages five…
$1,749,729 spent$1,962,846 earned by the program21% of program spendingCamping programs - the gwva ymca has an 1,100 acre site located in the pocono mountain area which is used for its camping programs. The residential and day camping at camp kresge offer adventure and learning activities that provide challenge, education, and promote spiritual awareness, mental development, physical well being, social growth, and self-respect. The camps provide a reverence for nature and respect for the inter-relatedness of all living things on earth. The camps are open to all regardless of income or special needs, so that children appreciate diversity, become community leaders and develop lifelong values. The camping programs for children ages six to twelve years old include hiking, archery, boating, and outdoor education. Camp kresge also hosts camp for children with asthma and the state police troop "p" camp cadet program. Family weekends and special weekends such as halloween camp are also part of the camp kresge programs.
$1,040,877 spent$527,192 earned by the program12% of program spendingStudent housing programs - the gwva ymca provides high quality apartments to a local college to house students attending the college.
$474,311 spent$568,102 earned by the program6% of program spendingSocial responsibility - gwva ymca believes in giving back and supporting our neighbors. We have been listening and responding to our community's most critical social needs. Gwva ymca programs are examples of how we deliver training, resources and support that empower our neighbors to effect change, bridge gaps and overcome obstacles. We engage wv ymca members, participants and volunteers in activites that strengthen our community and pave the way for future generations to thrive.
$412,530 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,331,563.
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 2024 to 2025, from $30M to $36M (+22%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 7% · 2019 3% · 2020 15% · 2021 21% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% · 2024 7% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
James J Thomas
CEO
Board chair
Catherine Mihalick
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $186k → $486k.
2 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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: $1.8M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Wyoming Valley). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA 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
GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
58% 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 GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 31% · 2019 78% · 2020 67% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 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
70% of GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA draws 56% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k 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.
Government funding GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$9k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA?
- GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,048,486 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($939,474). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,048,486 in grants to GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA?
- National Council of YMCAs of the USA is the largest funder on record, with $939,474 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WYOMING VALLEY AREA YMCA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 28 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