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MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA
MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022,074 to it, the largest being State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050) ($1,099,349). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Muskegon Young Men's Christian Association Dba Muskegon YMCA does
Mission
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirity, mind and body for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Addressing community health - after school and summer programs focusing on addressing root cause childhood obesity through physical activity and nutrition; providing evidence based chronic disease prevention and management programs including programs focused on diabetes prevention, cancer survivors and cardiovascular monitoring.
$596,481 spent$120,314 earned by the program32% of program spendingYmca camp pendalouan - this separate camping facility on big blue lake near montague, michigan servces summer campers, provides outdoor education for local schools and hosts retreats and rentals. With a commitment to nurturing the potential of children and teens, promoting healthy living and fostering a sense of social responsibility. Ymca camp pendalouan provides financial assistance to approximately 40% of summer campers as well as several outdoor education students. Michigan servces summer campers, provides outdoor education for local schools and hosts retreats and rentals. With a commitment to nurturing the potential of children and teens, promoting healthy living and fostering a sense of social responsibility. Ymca camp pendalouan provides financial assistance to approximately 40% of summer campers as well as several outdoor education students.
$1,280,791 spent$909,733 earned by the program68% of program spendingWater safety instruction - realizing the need for drowning prevention as a social responsibility, the muskegon ymca utilizes partnerships to provide vital water safety education year round to students and families. Education is provided both in the classroom and in the pool and covers safety lessons such as life jackets, beach safety, pool safety. Reminding participants to "reach-throw - don't go 'never swim alone'.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,877,272.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.2M to $3.3M (+50%).
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 5% · 2018 15% · 2019 15% · 2020 72% · 2021 60% · 2022 24% · 2023 19% · 2024 26% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Gabrielle Gerlach
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $295k → $844k.
11 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 48% · 2021 40% · 2022 35% · 2023 39% — 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
28% of MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
64% of MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.
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In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA?
- MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022,074 to it, the largest being State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050) ($1,099,349). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $4,022,074 in grants to MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA?
- State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050) is the largest funder on record, with $1,099,349 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSKEGON YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION DBA MUSKEGON YMCA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 27 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