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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,328 to it, the largest being First Look for Charity Foundation ($57,243). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$7.1M
Revenue FY2025
9
Funders on record
$259k
Grants received
$23M
Net assets
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($1.4M)2018 Revenue 303 ($4.5M) Expenses 102 ($1.5M) Net assets 314 ($4.4M)2019 Revenue 105 ($1.6M) Expenses 106 ($1.6M) Net assets 310 ($4.3M)2020 Revenue 206 ($3.1M) Expenses 94 ($1.4M) Net assets 437 ($6.1M)2021 Revenue 947 ($14M) Expenses 115 ($1.7M) Net assets 1324 ($18M)2022 Revenue 416 ($6.2M) Expenses 242 ($3.6M) Net assets 1507 ($21M)2023 Revenue 448 ($6.6M) Expenses 357 ($5.3M) Net assets 1601 ($22M)2024 Revenue 435 ($6.5M) Expenses 396 ($5.9M) Net assets 1640 ($23M)2025 Revenue 482 ($7.1M) Expenses 438 ($6.5M) Net assets 1684 ($23M)
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Revenue (482)Expenses (438)Net assets (1684)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 9% · 2022 5% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$10k
17
$3.0M
18
$38k
19
$1.7M
20
$12M
21
$2.6M
22
$1.3M
23
$541k
24
$608k
25
0.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $0 → $53k.

4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)50% 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 9 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

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% 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

69% 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL.

22%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 88% · 2021 55% · 2022 40% · 2023 35%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

50% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

83% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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20
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23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 9 funders put you under-funded 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.

Organizations like YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL

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 Illinois

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Blm-Nrml YMCA Charitable Fdn Nfp · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL: 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL?
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $259,328 to it, the largest being First Look for Charity Foundation ($57,243). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $259,328 in grants to YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL?
First Look for Charity Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $57,243 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BLOOMINGTON-NORMAL 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 9funders 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