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KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA

KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,512,341 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($423,647). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.6M
Revenue FY2025
23
Funders on record
$1.5M
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
14/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 100 ($3.6M)2018 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.5M) Net assets 102 ($3.7M)2019 Revenue 123 ($4.5M) Expenses 102 ($3.6M) Net assets 127 ($4.6M)2020 Revenue 73 ($2.6M) Expenses 80 ($2.8M) Net assets 121 ($4.4M)2021 Revenue 81 ($2.9M) Expenses 82 ($2.9M) Net assets 122 ($4.4M)2022 Revenue 61 ($2.2M) Expenses 95 ($3.3M) Net assets 91 ($3.3M)2023 Revenue 86 ($3.1M) Expenses 102 ($3.6M) Net assets 77 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 95 ($3.4M) Expenses 105 ($3.7M) Net assets 70 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 100 ($3.6M) Expenses 108 ($3.8M) Net assets 65 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (108)Net assets (65)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 26% · 2021 22% · 2022 14% · 2023 11% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

15% of KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$90k
17
$69k
18
$867k
19
$205k
20
$35k
21
$1.1M
22
$492k
23
$268k
24
$182k
25
0.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $103k → $213k.

8 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)48% 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 KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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

KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA 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

68% 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 KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA.

28%
largest funder
56%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 44% · 2019 28% · 2020 25% · 2021 42% · 2022 48% · 2023 46%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.

How long its funders stay

47% of KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

87% of KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $722k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 18%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KISHWAUKEE FAMILY 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 KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA?
KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,512,341 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($423,647). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,512,341 in grants to KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA?
DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $423,647 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 23funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing