Illinois · Nonprofit
KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA
KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,662,011 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($573,317). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Kishwaukee Family YMCA does
Mission
To promote christian principles through quality services and programs and to enrich the spirit, mind, and body of all participants regardless of ability to pay.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Youth development the before and after school program. When the school day is over, where and how children spend their time is vital to their growth and success in life. At the y, we help kids reach their potential and thrive in a safe, trustworthy setting. Through support and guidance, our afterschool program provides enrichment activities in the arts, physical education, sports and nutrition. We encourage children to make healthy choices, explore new things and exercise their creativity. Kids can focus on their homework, make new friends, build social skills and create happy memories they'll always remember. The y is a place where children feel comfortable and secure. Our partnership with the northern illinois food bank allows us to provide healthy meals for every child in our district 428 afterschool program. The summer day camp program. When the school doors close for summer, many children struggle to access educational opportunities, as well as basic needs such as healthy meals and adequate adult supervision. Our summer camp offers a mix of fun and educational activities aimed at improving kids' well-being, such as stem (science technology, engineering and math) catch…
$3,062,085 spent$3,081,368 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,062,085.
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 $7.3M to $5.2M (−28%).
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 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).
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
Brian Bickner
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
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) — 52% 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 34% 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
70% 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.
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.
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
52% of KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $790k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $872k 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.
Against its field
KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KISHWAUKEE 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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 $1,662,011 to it, the largest being DEKALB COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($573,317). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KISHWAUKEE FAMILY YMCA have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $1,662,011 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 $573,317 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.
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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 23 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