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North Dakota · Nonprofit
YMCA of the Northern Sky (North Dakota) is funded by 17 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $15,104,005 in grants to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,000,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
YMCA of the Northern Sky runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,461 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,461 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
26% of YMCA of the Northern Sky’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$20k from 1 funders in 2025, up from $439k and 3 in 2017.
6 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Northern Sky’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
YMCA of the Northern Sky leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 72% · 2019 56% · 2020 56% · 2021 95% · 2022 54% · 2023 37% · 2024 37% · 2025 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
36% of YMCA of the Northern Sky's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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.
YMCA of the Northern Sky draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 17 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
91% of spending goes to programs.
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 17funders 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. view filing