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National Council of YMCAs of the USA

National Council of YMCAs of the USA (Illinois) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,614,818 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($94,821,689). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$198M
Revenue FY2024
104
Funders on record
$286M
Grants received
$198M
Net assets
51/104 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%

Against its field

National Council of YMCAs of the USA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 248 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin15% · top quartile
Months of reserve5.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 248 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

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 ($131M) Expenses 100 ($137M) Net assets 100 ($153M)2018 Revenue 103 ($135M) Expenses 107 ($147M) Net assets 79 ($121M)2019 Revenue 105 ($137M) Expenses 102 ($140M) Net assets 86 ($132M)2020 Revenue 90 ($118M) Expenses 92 ($126M) Net assets 85 ($130M)2021 Revenue 110 ($145M) Expenses 70 ($96M) Net assets 122 ($186M)2022 Revenue 90 ($119M) Expenses 96 ($131M) Net assets 100 ($152M)2023 Revenue 117 ($153M) Expenses 115 ($158M) Net assets 104 ($158M)2024 Revenue 151 ($198M) Expenses 124 ($170M) Net assets 129 ($198M)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (124)Net assets (129)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 10% · 2021 7% · 2022 5% · 2023 6% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

46% of National Council of YMCAs of the USA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (20% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$5.7M
17
$12M
18
$2.1M
19
$7.9M
20
$49M
21
$12M
22
$4.8M
23
$29M
24
5.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 30 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $10M → $26M.

31 of 104 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)27% 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: $107k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest National Council of YMCAs of the USA). These are real filings, and they are not money National Council of YMCAs of the USA raised.

From the IRS filings of National Council of YMCAs of the USA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 104 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

National Council of YMCAs of the USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

65% 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 National Council of YMCAs of the USA.

33%
largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 55% · 2019 48% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 29% · 2023 75%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

24% of National Council of YMCAs of the USA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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

National Council of YMCAs of the USA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 26 states in all.

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL

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. $78M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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 104 funders put you under-funded 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 National Council of YMCAs of the USA

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

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 8%Fundraising 2%

Governance

28
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

86%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 41 states

AK
ME
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • North American YMCA Development Organization · disregarded
  • YMCA Enterprise Shared Services LLC · disregarded
  • National YMCA Employee Benefits Trust · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Council of YMCAs of the USA: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA?
National Council of YMCAs of the USA (Illinois) receives grants from 104 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,614,818 to it, the largest being ANNE RAY FOUNDATION ($94,821,689). 51 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does National Council of YMCAs of the USA have?
IRS filings report 104 organizations giving $285,614,818 in grants to National Council of YMCAs of the USA, 51 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of National Council of YMCAs of the USA?
ANNE RAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $94,821,689 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like National Council of YMCAs of the USA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 104funders 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