Michigan · Nonprofit
YMCA Foundation
YMCA Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,694,268 to it, the largest being YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ($1,694,268). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
YMCA Foundation's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Detroit Economic Growth Associationlocal
- State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050)portfolio match
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)portfolio match
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.
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.
31% of YMCA Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $227k → $1.2M.
From the IRS filings of YMCA Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of YMCA Foundation's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- Detroit Economic Growth AssociationlocalMI · funds 961 organizations near you
- State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Council of YMCAs of the USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Armed Services YMCA of the USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois State Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York State YMCA Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Redwoods Group Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pool & Hot Tub Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 YMCA Foundation
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YMCA Foundation: 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 YMCA Foundation?
- YMCA Foundation (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,694,268 to it, the largest being YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ($1,694,268). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YMCA Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,694,268 in grants to YMCA Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YMCA Foundation?
- YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit is the largest funder on record, with $1,694,268 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YMCA Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing