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YMCA OF LINCOLN

YMCA OF LINCOLN (Nebraska) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,717 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($785,948). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$21M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$1.9M
Net assets
$39M
15/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What YMCA of Lincoln does

Mission

The mission of the lincoln young men's christian association is to organize human, financial and material resources to encourage the spiritual, physical, mental and social growth of individuals within a judeo-christian atmosphere.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Wellness, health & well-being, family strengthening - serves adults and youth and offers programs that meet the criteria set forth by national program standards in health enhancement and wellness. Programs include instr. Classes, health enhancement, preventative programming, nutritional education, leagues and special events.

    $8,457,541 spent$9,870,109 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  2. Residence camps - utilize outdoor facilities to provide a quality camping program for youths ages 6-16, provide democratic living, christian values such as caring, respect, honesty and responsibility, provide self-reliance, health and safety acquiring skills, environmental education and leadership skills.

    $2,588,008 spent$2,588,645 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  3. Youth sports - offered to youth k through 12 in the community to develop self-esteem, social skills, physical skills, leadership skills, build positive relationships, support and strengthen family life, interest in health and well-being, and lifetime sports skills for over 30,000 youth participants. Character development and asset development are integrated into each activity.

    $3,677,099 spent$1,834,713 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  4. Other programs - various school age children, daycare and parent/child programs, aquatics, older adults, teens, and community outreach.

    $1,950,445 spent$3,598,351 earned by the program
    12% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,673,093.

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 ($15M) Expenses 100 ($15M) Net assets 100 ($23M)2018 Revenue 110 ($17M) Expenses 106 ($16M) Net assets 102 ($23M)2019 Revenue 113 ($17M) Expenses 105 ($16M) Net assets 108 ($24M)2020 Revenue 79 ($12M) Expenses 74 ($11M) Net assets 112 ($25M)2021 Revenue 102 ($16M) Expenses 84 ($13M) Net assets 125 ($28M)2022 Revenue 118 ($18M) Expenses 94 ($15M) Net assets 139 ($31M)2023 Revenue 128 ($20M) Expenses 106 ($16M) Net assets 155 ($35M)2024 Revenue 125 ($19M) Expenses 114 ($18M) Net assets 163 ($37M)2025 Revenue 135 ($21M) Expenses 121 ($19M) Net assets 174 ($39M)
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Revenue (135)Expenses (121)Net assets (174)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 2021 to 2022, from $36M to $40M (+9%).

$36M
$35M
$34M
$34M
$36M
$40M
$42M
$43M
$45M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

11% of YMCA OF LINCOLN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,400 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$52k
’17
$601k
’18
$1.3M
’19
$707k
’20
$2.8M
’21
$3.7M
’22
$3.4M
’23
$1.7M
’24
$2.0M
’25
7.7
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.

Board chair

Kelly Wieseler

Chair/cvo

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed363533323330333029
Joined·+4+3+2+4+2+4+4+1
No longer listed·55335172
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $126k → $146k.

6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $687k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lincoln Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money YMCA OF LINCOLN raised.

From the IRS filings of YMCA OF LINCOLN’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 LINCOLN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 LINCOLN.

42%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 59% · 2019 77% · 2020 63% · 2021 52% · 2022 47% · 2023 36% — 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

41% of YMCA OF LINCOLN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

YMCA OF LINCOLN draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Nebraska, across 5 states in all.

IL
PA
CA
NE
KS

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

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’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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 LINCOLN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · top quartile
Months of reserve7.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Organizations like YMCA OF LINCOLN

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 Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 10%Fundraising 1%

Governance

26
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

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

  • Lincoln YMCA Foundation · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds YMCA OF LINCOLN?
YMCA OF LINCOLN (Nebraska) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,867,717 to it, the largest being National Council of YMCAs of the USA ($785,948). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YMCA OF LINCOLN have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,867,717 in grants to YMCA OF LINCOLN, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YMCA OF LINCOLN?
National Council of YMCAs of the USA is the largest funder on record, with $785,948 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YMCA OF LINCOLN find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 28 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