Massachusetts · Nonprofit
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,954,220 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,379,066). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,000 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,000 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundationshared funders
- YMCA Alliance of Northern New Englandportfolio match
- North Carolina Alliance of Ymcasportfolio match
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.
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 8% · 2018 9% · 2019 11% · 2020 21% · 2021 36% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% · 2024 23% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC’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. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $779k → $3.7M.
19 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 THE NORTH SHORE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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 THE NORTH SHORE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
65% 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 THE NORTH SHORE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 41% · 2021 22% · 2022 45% · 2023 54% — 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
38% of YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
51% of YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC'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 $9.3M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.6M 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 105 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 45 organizations that share your funders
- YMCA Alliance of Northern New Englandportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North Carolina Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Seattle (6871)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Armed Services YMCA of the USAportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York State YMCA Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Redwoods Group Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- State Alliance of Michigan YMCAs (0050)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois State Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California State Alliance of Ymcasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.4M on record — $1.2M federal, $26.2M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.2M
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$24.3M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.5M
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$300k
- (JJ) OPERATIONAL SERVICES$176k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 20 related entities
- Wadleigh House LLC · disregarded
- Yns Affordable Housing Inc · exempt
- Fuller Schoolhouse Road Inc · exempt
- Winter Street Housing LP · partnership
- Powder House Village LP · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC?
- YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,954,220 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,379,066). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $18,954,220 in grants to YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,379,066 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 105funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing