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SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,652 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($99,522). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.1M
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$222k
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
2/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

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 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($5.0M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 110 ($5.0M) Expenses 103 ($5.2M) Net assets 108 ($13M)2019 Revenue 134 ($6.1M) Expenses 106 ($5.3M) Net assets 107 ($13M)2020 Revenue 71 ($3.2M) Expenses 78 ($3.9M) Net assets 102 ($13M)2021 Revenue 88 ($4.0M) Expenses 74 ($3.7M) Net assets 105 ($13M)2022 Revenue 96 ($4.3M) Expenses 89 ($4.4M) Net assets 96 ($12M)2023 Revenue 109 ($4.9M) Expenses 108 ($5.4M) Net assets 94 ($12M)2024 Revenue 136 ($6.2M) Expenses 121 ($6.1M) Net assets 96 ($12M)2025 Revenue 179 ($8.1M) Expenses 147 ($7.4M) Net assets 100 ($12M)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (147)Net assets (100)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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 12% · 2021 24% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (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.

$464k
17
$148k
18
$768k
19
$700k
20
$316k
21
$98k
22
$453k
23
$128k
24
$779k
25
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $30k → $7k.

3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)24% 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: $106k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Monica YMCA Endowment Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION raised.

From the IRS filings of SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’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

SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.

45%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

IL
CA

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $54k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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 7 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 SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

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 California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Santa Monica YMCA Endowment Fund · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: 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 SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $221,652 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($99,522). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $221,652 in grants to SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
National Council of YMCAs of the USA is the largest funder on record, with $99,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SANTA MONICA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 7funders 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