Illinois · Nonprofit
YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS
YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,923 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($400,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What YMCA of Ottawa Illinois does
Mission
To put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind & body for all
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The ymca provides recreational programs for citizens a) pre-school programs approximately 150 youngsters aged 6 months to 5 years participate in a wide variety of programs skills are developed in aquatics, tumbling, and pre-school training youngsters learn social skills, develop self esteem and confidence, and learn respect for group leaders many programs consist of parent-child involvement which strengthens family relationships b) school age youth programs in excess of 500 youngsters are involved in one or more of the following activities outdoor soccer, indoor soccer, basketball, flag football, competitive swimming, tae kwon do, racquetball gymnastics, swim instruction, after school program, and the porpoise club new skills, good health habits, positive role models, increased self steem/confidence, friendship development, interaction of adults & children and parent-child involvement characterize these programs when added to recreational swimming and basketball plus weight lifting, children are provided with extensive and constructional opportunities as alternatives to substance abuse and delinquency c) adult programs designed to meet the physical and social needs of participants…
$2,899,231 spentof which $261,706 as grants$2,724,244 earned by the program100% of program spendingN/a
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,899,231.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $15M (+341%).
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: 2020 6% · 2021 14% · 2022 9% · 2023 15% · 2024 34% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Jay LeSeure
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $44k → $14k.
7 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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: $1.4M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ottawa YMCA Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS raised.
From the IRS filings of YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS’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 OTTAWA ILLINOIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 OTTAWA ILLINOIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 67% · 2019 72% · 2020 60% · 2021 58% · 2022 39% · 2023 78% — 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
25% of YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
59% of YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS'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 $494k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $712k 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.
Organizations like YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS?
- YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,205,923 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($400,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,205,923 in grants to YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YMCA OF OTTAWA ILLINOIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 15 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