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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) (Georgia) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,408,005 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($18,384,005). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $135M
- Funders on record
- 151
- Grants received
- $49M
- Net assets
- $192M
What Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Atlanta (1361) does
Mission
The ymca of metropolitan atlanta, inc., reflecting its judeo-christian heritage, is an association of volunteers, members and staff open to and serving all, providing programs and services which develop spirit, mind and body. The y's vision is to be the organization in metro atlanta recognized for bringing people together to champion communities where everyone belongs. We believe all people, especially children, deserve an equal chance to reach their full potential and should prepare themselves to connect to and serve community. Financial assistance is available based on need. The ymca actively seeks to identify and involve those in need. In all of our core programs, we are dedicated to using a research-to-practice model where we strive to make a meaningful impact in health, education and youth development, and we measure the impact in those areas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy living and well-being: the ymca of metro atlanta began in 1858 with a vision to create an organization that would welcome individuals as they came to atlanta and provide a safe place for growth, community, and faith. Over the years, the y has grown to meet the city's needs, today serving hundreds of thousands of individuals through numerous membership branches and program sites across greater atlanta. Serving the atlanta metropolitan region for more than 160 years, the y has been an essential community organization, offering health and wellbeing opportunities for children, teens, adults, and seniors to learn, grow, serve, and thrive. By providing high-quality programs that historically engaged 250,000 children, families, and communities through every stage of development, the y strengthens individuals and families through education, wellness, and youth development, especially in our city's most under-resourced communities. The ymca of metro atlanta continues to leverage partnerships to deliver and expand existing hunger relief efforts to support more than 9,000 families weekly, with many people served not having any previous affiliation with the y. In addition to…
$75,040,514 spentof which $60,000 as grants$48,599,967 earned by the program63% of program spendingAfterschool & day camp: all out of school activities have an intentional focus of fostering social-emotional development. Children and youth can try new activities and explore ideas in a safe environment, set and manage goals, and build upon their developing passions. For example, on the ropes course, students work together as a team to challenge and support each other to complete course elements. Through group activities, youth build self-awareness, improve communications, and learn critical relationship skills. Counselors guide teens through self-reflective conversations, ask introspective questions and encourage them to think about their strengths and areas for growth without judgment. As a result, children and teens in y out of school programs gain the knowledge and skills to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, experience and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions. The y has provided high-quality afterschool programs since the late 1970s. These programs began as a safe place for children to go during the critical hours between when the school day ends and when the typical workday ends.…
$23,300,637 spent$15,090,651 earned by the program19% of program spendingSchool readiness & youth development: the y is one of the largest providers of early learning in atlanta, historically serving approximately 3,500 children, ages six weeks to four years old. Not only is the ys reach broad, but the ys programs are best-in-class. This initiative is accomplished through a flexible, four-pronged approach: head start and early head start programming; georgia pre-kindergarten, in partnership with local school systems; traditional fee-for-service preschools, subsidized by scholarships; and early learning readiness, and mobile preschools designed to engage those not served by more traditional learning models. While the y of metro atlanta deploys different models for different communities and according to available funding and space, they all share a common philosophy of preparing children and their families for kindergarten with proven, research-based methods. Our early learning program's goal is to prepare our youngest learners for kindergarten and long-term academic success through access to highly trained teachers, research-based curriculum and dynamic learning environments. To achieve this goal, the y of metro atlanta has integrated the following…
$21,693,909 spent$14,039,453 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $120,035,060.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $319M to $302M (−5%).
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 20% · 2018 20% · 2019 21% · 2020 23% · 2021 45% · 2022 36% · 2023 35% · 2024 29% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (17% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Lauren Koontz
Chief executive officer
Board chair
W Jeffrey Beckham
Chairman/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 51 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $4.5M.
33 of 151 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 151 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 METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
78% 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 METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 29% · 2019 27% · 2020 29% · 2021 79% · 2022 40% · 2023 22% — 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
29% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
73% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)'s grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)'s funding base is broadening — from 31 funders to 51 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 180 human services nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Early Childhood Development Co LLC · disregarded
- Atlanta YMCA Westside Qalicb Inc · exempt
- YMCA Woodson Park Qalicb Inc · exempt
- Atlanta YMCA Young Qalicb Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)?
- YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) (Georgia) receives grants from 151 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,408,005 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($18,384,005). 75 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) have?
- IRS filings report 151 organizations giving $49,408,005 in grants to YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361), 75 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361)?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $18,384,005 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ATLANTA (1361) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 151 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