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JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC
JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,157 to it, the largest being FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $882k
- Net assets
- $24M
What John E Alexander YMCA Community Center Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Through our youth development, healthy living and social responsibility focus areas, we fulfill our cause of strengthening the foundations of spirit, mind and body for all. Through our youth development, healthy living and social responsibility focus areas, we fulfill our cause of strengthening the foundations of community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
YMCA family life programs: Strengthening families and meeting the needs of children have always been central to the YMCA mission of building healthy spirits, minds, and bodies for all. The YMCA is proud to be a family organization. We give families a safe, reliable, and affordable place to go. Recreational opportunities such as family swim, the gym, and fun center let families relax and enjoy each other. YMCA family life programs help people grow as responsible members of families. They provide children and their parents with activities that foster understanding and companionship. Activities are planned to bring groups of families together to support each other. Parents have the opportunity to learn from each other and from their children in an enjoyable way. YMCA health and fitness: The familiar YMCA triangle emphasizes the oneness of spirit, mind, and body. YMCA health enhancement programs help achieve this unity through medically-based programs that stress proper exercise, nutrition, and stress management, avoidance of drug and alcohol abuse, and health education. Over 1,200 participants attended land and water fitness classes. Our Bridge to Bridge 5k walk/run has over 100…
$3,355,935 spent$2,548,747 earned by the program70% of program spendingYMCA camping: YMCA residential and day camps develop self-confidence and self-respect when campers meet challenges and learn to cooperate. Y camping programs are educational; they promote spiritual awareness, mental development, physical well-being, social growth and a respect for the environment. Through a variety of activities and the use of natural surroundings, YMCA camping seeks to help participants achieve their fullest potential in spirit, mind and body. Knowing that a child is being cared for in a y camp program enables these parents to remain gainfully and productively employed. As in the case of other YMCA programs, financial assistance is available for those who cannot afford the customary fee, and those with special needs are welcome. Our camping programs continued to touch the lives of youth ages 5-17 with 446 children attending our camping programs this last summer.
$215,947 spent$64,472 earned by the program5% of program spendingYMCA childcare: the central focus of all YMCA preschool and school-aged programs is to foster growth and development, not only in children but also in their parents and families. Accordingly, parents play an important role in policy and program decisions. YMCA childcare curriculum helps children develop moral and ethical behaviors, self-esteem and leadership. Y childcare allows parents to remain gainfully employed, knowing that their children are thriving in a safe, supportive environment. YMCA financial assistance policies help ensure that the YMCA is a place where children of all economic levels, from the affluent to the disadvantaged, receive the same quality care in the same setting. The South Wood County YMCA childcare department continued to meet community needs in 2025 by offering childcare to over 3,000 children, ages 1 to 12.
$1,213,815 spent$1,089,545 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe Adams Facility has the same purpose as Program 4A, just at a different location.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,785,697.
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 2017 to 2018, from $14M to $25M (+86%).
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: 2021 7% · 2022 15% · 2023 9% · 2024 9% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Erin Hess
CEO
Board chair
Tim Birkhauser
Chair/ Chief Volunteer Officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $250 → $60k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $933k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of South Wood & Adams Counties Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC’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
JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
74% 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 JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 92% · 2020 83% · 2021 83% · 2022 60% · 2023 42% — 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 JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
77% of JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $252k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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
- John E Alexander South Wood County YMCA Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
- JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $882,157 to it, the largest being FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ($250,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $882,157 in grants to JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC?
- FEDERATED YOUTH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JOHN E ALEXANDER YMCA COMMUNITY CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 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