Louisiana · Nonprofit
YMCA of Northwest Louisiana
YMCA of Northwest Louisiana (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,669,215 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($1,366,963). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $24M
What YMCA of Northwest Louisiana does
Mission
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health enhancement: the YMCA of Northwest Louisiana believes that exercise and health education are important for people of all ages and abilities. Participation in ymca health and fitness programs offer opportunities for friendship and community, a sense of well-being, self confidence, improved mental abilities, along with healthy hearts, lungs, bones and muscles. Our programs include strength training, walking, personal fitness, exercise for beginners, yoga, weight management, and group exercise including aerobics and stationary bicycle fitness training. The ymca has subsidy programs for low-income households.
$2,270,061 spent$4,752,568 earned by the program45% of program spendingAquatics: Teaching youth and adults how to swim and water safety.
$1,860,708 spentof which $60,705 as grants$209,484 earned by the program36% of program spendingSports and recreation: the youth sports programs provide children with positive activities and caring adult attention. Coaches offer volunteer time to teach participants about teamwork and cooperation over winning at any cost and also try to develop good core values which include caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility.
$967,356 spent$362,759 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,098,125.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $24M to $33M (+34%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 21% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of YMCA of Northwest Louisiana’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Gary Lash
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $287k → $469k.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 Northwest Louisiana’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 Northwest Louisiana leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 Northwest Louisiana.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 57% · 2019 59% · 2020 43% · 2021 63% · 2022 80% · 2023 85% — 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
58% of YMCA of Northwest Louisiana's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
66% of YMCA of Northwest Louisiana'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 $908k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 Northwest Louisiana has grown faster than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like YMCA of Northwest Louisiana
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 YMCA of Northwest Louisiana: 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 YMCA of Northwest Louisiana?
- YMCA of Northwest Louisiana (Louisiana) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,669,215 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ($1,366,963). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YMCA of Northwest Louisiana have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,669,215 in grants to YMCA of Northwest Louisiana, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YMCA of Northwest Louisiana?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA is the largest funder on record, with $1,366,963 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YMCA of Northwest Louisiana find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 25 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