Illinois · Nonprofit
TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,074,943 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($589,690). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Tri-Town Young Men's Christian Association does
Mission
Tri-town ymca is committed to providing enriching and diverse opportunities that builds strong kids, families,and communities with a focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development: tri-town ymca provides nurturing youth enrichment and care programs such as y kids and summer day camp programming. Through these programs, participants deepen their knowledge of positive values through a broad range of experiences that simultaneously enrich cognitive, social, physical, and emotional growth. Subsidies and financial assistance are made available and provide equitable access to youth development opportunities at tri-town ymca. In 2024, these programs had 854 youth enrolled and the organization delivered approximately 5,300 hours of social emotional learning curriculum. These resulted in approximately 22,000 touchpoints in social emotional learning experiences.
$1,404,002 spentof which $68,303 as grants$1,503,166 earned by the program89% of program spendingHealthy living: tri-town ymca provides healthy living programs and services that are supportive of people's total well-being. This is particularly important as our nation struggles with an obesity epidemic, families struggle with work/life balance, and individuals search for improved quality of life. This is accomplished with equitable access to nutritious feeding programs, vaccination clinics, and mental health counseling services. In 2024, 447 youths enrolled in youth mentoring services and/or mental health counseling/psychosocial educational programs.
$78,403 spent$33,724 earned by the program5% of program spendingSocial responsibility - tri-town ymca supports the existing and emerging needs of the community through equitable social responsibility programs and services. This is accomplished through participation and leadership of communitywide collaborations activities, meetings, and events that are reflective of the local culture. In response to the growing gap in early childhood services, tri-town ymca implemented the villa park area early childhood collaborative to focus on the needs of children birth through eight years of age and their care circles. In addition, in response to the fallout of the pandemic and the mental health needs of youths and families, tri-town ymca launched a communitywide collaboration focused on providing programs and services that provide access to mental health counseling services and community education that supports each individual's total well-being - spirit, mind, and body. In 2024, the organization hired two new full-time parent navigators to support referral and coordination of programs that meet the basic needs of families.
$87,663 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,570,068.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $1.9M (+56%).
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: 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 19% · 2023 6% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Sarah O'Donnell
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $224k.
1 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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
TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 55% · 2021 35% · 2022 51% · 2023 91% — 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
50% of TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
55% of TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $485k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $590k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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 TRI-TOWN 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,074,943 to it, the largest being THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($589,690). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,074,943 in grants to TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRI-TOWN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION?
- THE DUPAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $589,690 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRI-TOWN 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 Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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