Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,859,047 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($623,954). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $6.5M
What The Mystic Valley Young Men's Christian Association does
Mission
Our mission is to strengthen our communities with relevant, continually evolving programs and services that enrich the lives of all people in spirit, mind and body.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy living - the y is a leading voice on health and well-being. We bring families closer together, encourage good health, and foster connections through fitness, sports, and shared interests. Our 10,000 members enjoy fitness and healthy living through programming such asfamily zumba, yoga, karate, basketball, soccer club, and other fun activities. A range of offerings are available to promote health and wellness, increse confidence, build community and fight social isolation. Examples include enhance fitness, blood pressure self-monitoring, livestrong, and pedaling for parkingsons. Our programs are accessible, affordable, and open to all faiths, backgrounds, abilities and income levels. In 2025, we provided $413,472 in financial assistance to people who otherwise would have faced economic barriers to participation.
$2,799,055 spent$2,585,429 earned by the program25% of program spendingYouth development - the mystic valley ymca is committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen with programs designed to support, motivate, and nurture hundreds of young people to help them reach their fullest potential. The y supports youth development and education with youth sports (including flag football, basketball, dodge ball), adaptive aquatics, swim lessons, summer youth programming, preschool, year-round afterschool and out of school child-care (operated in two locations - malden and medford), a teen center with programming that provides youth with a safe space and appropriate adult mentors during peak hours of juvenile crime and drug experimentation. Our y also has a strong leaders club and youth and government program.
$4,741,375 spent$1,190,746 earned by the program43% of program spendingSocial responsibility: mystic valley ymca membership and programming serves 45,000 diverse individuals of all ages annually from medford, malden, everett and nearby communities. Our various y community food programs work toward the goal of reducing food insecurity and addressing the consequences of hunger, while providing nutritious food to our neighbors. Our food programs include two free food markets, free grocery deliveries to subsidized senior housing, meals and snacks for children enrolled in y youth programming, and free summer meals to youth at 19 sites across the cities we serve. In fy2025 we distributed over 2.4 million pounds of food and 77,000 meals to children and teens, in addition we engaged 286 volunteers in activities that strengthened our community.
$3,492,486 spent32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,032,916.
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 2024 to 2025, from $15M to $14M (−6%).
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 28% · 2018 26% · 2019 25% · 2021 39% · 2022 38% · 2023 28% · 2024 29% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Deborah Amaral
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $135k → $178k.
7 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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
THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% 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
99% 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 THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 43% · 2019 53% · 2020 35% · 2021 54% · 2022 43% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“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
55% of THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION'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
54% of THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,859,047 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($623,954). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,859,047 in grants to THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- National Council of YMCAs of the USA is the largest funder on record, with $623,954 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MYSTIC VALLEY 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 Massachusetts. 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 18 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