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THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC

THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,294,282 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($6,358,549). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$32M
Revenue FY2024
57
Funders on record
$11M
Grants received
$38M
Net assets
33/57 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%

Against its field

THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,286 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve1.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$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 ($28M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2018 Revenue 101 ($29M) Expenses 102 ($28M) Net assets 101 ($33M)2019 Revenue 108 ($30M) Expenses 107 ($29M) Net assets 107 ($35M)2020 Revenue 67 ($19M) Expenses 75 ($20M) Net assets 105 ($34M)2021 Revenue 88 ($25M) Expenses 78 ($21M) Net assets 111 ($36M)2022 Revenue 92 ($26M) Expenses 90 ($25M) Net assets 111 ($36M)2023 Revenue 94 ($27M) Expenses 100 ($27M) Net assets 111 ($36M)2024 Revenue 112 ($32M) Expenses 108 ($30M) Net assets 118 ($38M)
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Revenue (112)Expenses (108)Net assets (118)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: 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,397 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$920k
17
$731k
18
$1.1M
19
$1.6M
20
$3.5M
21
$1.5M
22
$670k
23
$2.0M
24
1.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.3M.

12 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79% 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC.

56%
largest funder
74%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 79% · 2019 73% · 2020 72% · 2021 39% · 2022 36% · 2023 59%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

52% of THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

83% of THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC's grant income comes from Alabama funders.

MN
IL
PA
CA
MO
KY
DE
NC
AL
GA
FL

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

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Alabama out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 57 funders put you well-backed 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.

Government funding THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $534k on record.

Federal$534k
grants $0contracts $534k
20
21
Top agencies
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$534k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC

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 Alabama

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 11%Fundraising 1%

Governance

39
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Roebuck YMCA Collaborative Qalicb Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: 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 THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC?
THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC (Alabama) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,294,282 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ($6,358,549). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC have?
IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $11,294,282 in grants to THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,358,549 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 57funders 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