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YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC

YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,615 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($204,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.9M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$5.4M
12/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What YMCA of Kanawha Valley Inc does

Mission

The ymca of kanawha valley is a charitable, social service organization dedicted to youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. With a mission to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Our impact is proven when a person makes a healthy choice, when a ymca coach inspires a child and when our community comes together for the common good of all. Ymca programs focus on four core character values - caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. We serve men, women, and children of all ages, races, abilities, incomes, and religions. Everyone is welcome at our ymca, regardless of their ability to pay. The ymca is founded and led by volunteers that guide us in identifying needs within our community and help form strategies to respond so that the entire community benefits from our efforts.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sports and recreation- ymca sports programs concentrate on sportmanship, character building, motivation, and fair play. The ymca philosophy and goals are that everyone plays and has fun. Youth sports programs help to develop children in mind, body, and spirit. The objective is to not only help youth to become better athletes, but also become better individuals, through sportmanship, character building, and social responsibilities. Not every participant can win every contest, but every participant can be a winner. The programs involve children from ages three to eighteen years as well as adults of all ages. Youth participated in a wide variety of sports opportunities that included tennis, swimming, sport specific fitness trainig, & futsal.

    $583,583 spentof which $48,888 as grants$1,726,258 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  2. Health enhancement - the ymca promotes healthy living to people of all ages, abilities and income levels. Our health and fitness programs are geared toward improving a person's spirit, mind and body. Our fitness center offers a wide variety of cardio, selectorized and free weight equipment, which allows our members to work out on their own, or take advantage of our numerous personal trainers. We also offer many fitness class options including boot camps, aerobic classes, spinning, yoga, pilates, water aerobics and many classes for our senior population, including silver sneakers.

    $332,563 spentof which $1,501 as grants$1,111,696 earned by the program
    10% of program spending
  3. Child development cross lanes - ymca child development center is a licensed child care facility through the wv dhhr bureau for children and families, division of early care and education, with a capacity to serve 245 children daily, ages 6 weeks to 12 years old. Our center operates monday thru friday from 6:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. We believe that it is our social responsibility to offer the highest quality of care and education in all of our youth development programs including daycare, preschool, kanawha county schools pre-k, before and after school care, and summer day camps. All child development center employees receive five separate background checks, a drug screening, training in child abuse and neglect prevention and a thorough orientation prior to hire.

    $1,174,693 spent$1,475,893 earned by the program
    35% of program spending
  4. Ymca family life programs: strengthening families and meeting the needs of children have always been central to the ymca mission of building healthy spirits, minds, and bodies for all. The ymca is proud to be a family organization. We give families a safe, reliable, and affordable place to go. Recreational opprortunities such as family movie swim and parent's night out let families relax and enjoy each other. Ymca programs provide children and their parents with activities that foster understanding and companionship. Parents have the opprtunity to learn from each other and from their children in an enjoyable way. We encourage youth with special needs to join our programs and we also host special olympics aquatic competitions each year. Our membership structure includes the household which is inclusive of grandparents and guardian or partners overseeing the care of their youth. Youth development and teen leadership. The teens opportunities for growth and achievement club, also known as toga, is an afterschool program that provides care for 12-15 year olds during the afterschool hours. The teens participate in community service activities, tutoring, arts and crafts classes and…

    $1,288,360 spentof which $20,873 as grants$151,891 earned by the program
    38% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,379,199.

02The 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 ($4.2M) Expenses 100 ($4.1M) Net assets 100 ($4.5M)2018 Revenue 110 ($4.6M) Expenses 122 ($5.1M) Net assets 87 ($3.9M)2019 Revenue 122 ($5.1M) Expenses 125 ($5.2M) Net assets 90 ($4.0M)2020 Revenue 78 ($3.3M) Expenses 86 ($3.6M) Net assets 84 ($3.8M)2021 Revenue 122 ($5.1M) Expenses 93 ($3.8M) Net assets 115 ($5.1M)2022 Revenue 134 ($5.6M) Expenses 118 ($4.9M) Net assets 126 ($5.7M)2023 Revenue 124 ($5.2M) Expenses 126 ($5.2M) Net assets 128 ($5.7M)2024 Revenue 122 ($5.1M) Expenses 127 ($5.3M) Net assets 127 ($5.7M)2025 Revenue 119 ($4.9M) Expenses 132 ($5.5M) Net assets 121 ($5.4M)
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Revenue (119)Expenses (132)Net assets (121)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $6.0M to $7.3M (+22%).

$6.0M
$7.3M
$7.0M
$7.1M
$8.4M
$8.3M
$8.0M
$7.9M
$7.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 27% · 2022 13% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
’17
−$490k
’18
−$99k
’19
−$312k
’20
$1.3M
’21
$672k
’22
−$62k
’23
−$212k
’24
−$509k
’25
1.8
months of
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 Bolyard

President & CEO

Board chair

Rebecca Mcphail

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed213132252325212121
Joined·+16+9+1+1+8+6+1+5
No longer listed·688361015
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $233k → $130k.

7 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

73% 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 YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC.

20%
largest funder
46%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 52% · 2019 28% · 2020 44% · 2021 58% · 2022 36% · 2023 52% — 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.

How long its funders stay

37% of YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

73% of YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.

IL
PA
NJ
CT
WV
VA
TN
FL

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

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West Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $449k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC's revenue grew 19% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 35%Fundraising 3%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

WV

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • YMCA of Kan Valley Endowment Fund · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC?
YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,038,615 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($204,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $1,038,615 in grants to YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $204,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YMCA OF KANAWHA VALLEY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing