Michigan · Nonprofit
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit (Michigan) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,095,977 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,163,810). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $23M
What YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit does
Mission
The YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit is a volunteer led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. Our mission is to put judeo-christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Child care and day camp the ymca offers children and parents a safe and caring place to grow, supporting parents' efforts to nurture their children's healthy development. Trained and certified staff provide affordable, high-quality care for peace of mind and family success. In 2025, over 1,400 children participated in age-appropriate enjoyable child care experiences. Ymca child care, including after-school care, is offered in licensed locations throughout southeast michigan and includes youth fitness to ensure a healthy lifestyle at the earliest age. One of the best ways to give children a head start in life is through the quality child care programs at the ymca. But anyone with children knows even the most affordable child care program is a considerable financial responsibility. For some, without the help of the ymca annual campaign, it wouldn't even be a possibility. That is why the annual campaign helps build strong families of all sizes by offering much needed financial assistance for child care. Summer day camp is also offered at every YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit branch, and enrollment often fills up quickly. But the ymca provides several different summer camp experiences -…
$8,038,301 spent$7,025,494 earned by the program38% of program spendingAquatics swimming lessons, as we know them today, were invented at the detroit ymca in 1910 before spreading throughout the ymca national movement. Learning to swim at the ymca is more than stroke development. Trained, certified and sensitive staff gave personal attention to over 8,800 program participants in 2025 to ensure quality and safety. Ymca aquatics programs are available to all ages and skill levels. Through guided discovery activities and creative teaching methods, each level of the ymca swim lesson program teaches age-appropriate skills. Participants are taught in small groups with others of their own age and skill level. The y's approach to swim lessons provides for more active involvement and a better fundamental understanding of swimming. YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit swim teams also play an important role in building self-esteem, confidence and team spirit.
$4,061,909 spent$985,440 earned by the program19% of program spendingHealth and well-being for all ymca members are full partners in pursuing the mission of the ymca and participating in a variety of programs that develop a healthy body, mind and spirit. Membership benefits include access to certain classes, preferred rates for programs, access to facilities, access to ymca resident camps, ymca childwatch, and opportunities to volunteer and contribute to community betterment activities. Almost 40,000 people of all ages, ethnicities and abilities are members of the ymca. The membership is equally divided between male and female and numerous members also serve in a variety of volunteer roles giving back to their respective communities. Like all our programs, scholarship assistance for members that require financial assistance is available through our annual campaign. More than 10 percent of ymca members receive scholarship or subsidy support in some form.
$3,015,721 spent$9,073,241 earned by the program14% of program spendingThe ymca offers affordable programs and services in healthy living, youth development and social responsibility designed to benefit families of all incomes and backgrounds. Fees are based on the actual cost to provide each program. Candidates qualify to receive scholarships for membership and programs if they are low income. The amount they pay is based on a sliding fee scale with the remainder subsidized by the ymca through either grant funding and/or the ymca annual campaign.
$5,853,825 spentof which $283,700 as grants$1,336,432 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $20,969,756.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $48M to $41M (−16%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 7% · 2021 32% · 2022 17% · 2023 16% · 2024 16% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Parrish Underwood
President & CEO/Board Secretary
Board chair
Gail von Staden
Chair of the Board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $772k → $4.6M.
17 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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: $14M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest YMCA Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit raised.
From the IRS filings of YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
81% 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 Metropolitan Detroit.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 44% · 2019 24% · 2020 38% · 2021 79% · 2022 23% · 2023 56% — 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
29% of YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
88% of YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Against its field
YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,396 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Y-Education Services L3c · disregarded
- YMCA Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit?
- YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit (Michigan) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,095,977 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,163,810). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $34,095,977 in grants to YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,163,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit 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 84 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