New Jersey · Nonprofit
The YMCA of Greater Bergen County
The YMCA of Greater Bergen County (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,253 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($109,160). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- New York State YMCA Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Incshared fundersportfolio match
- YMCA Alliance of Northern New Englandportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $0.
From the IRS filings of The YMCA of Greater Bergen County’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 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 YMCA of Greater Bergen County leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 YMCA of Greater Bergen County.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 79% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
The YMCA of Greater Bergen County draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- New York State YMCA Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchNY · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Incshared fundersportfolio matchCT · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- YMCA Alliance of Northern New Englandportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Armed Services YMCA of the USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Redwoods Group Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida State Alliance of Ymcas Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois State Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asian American Federation Incshared fundersNY · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
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 The YMCA of Greater Bergen County
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 The YMCA of Greater Bergen County: 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.
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 The YMCA of Greater Bergen County?
- The YMCA of Greater Bergen County (New Jersey) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $135,253 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($109,160). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The YMCA of Greater Bergen County have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $135,253 in grants to The YMCA of Greater Bergen County, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The YMCA of Greater Bergen County?
- National Council of YMCAs of the USA is the largest funder on record, with $109,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The YMCA of Greater Bergen County find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), and the filings of 4funders 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