Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,503,394 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,263,925). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $31M
What Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Washington does
Mission
The Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Washington (ymca) responds to critical youth, teen and family issues with therapeutic, counseling and developmental programs, including truancy prevention, teen pregnancy counseling and assistance, drug abuse prevention, tutorial services, english as a second language, drop-in programs, and family adventure programs. The ymca works in collaboration with governmental and community agencies to provide a variety of programs that help accomplish its mission to promote healthy living, youth development and social responsibility.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Healthy living: committed to the health and wellness of our children, the ymca's phd (physical, healthy and driven) program, made a rebound to physical exercise and play in our childcare, afterschool and camp programs. Ymca staff provided physical exercise, nutrition lessons and family engagement activities that were fun in nature and in some cases, converted some phd lessons into virtual classes that families could use to continue to stay active and help combat childhood obesity. Children, adults, and seniors pursued a healthy lifestyle in our six local health and wellbeing centers with y membership. Children, teens, adults, and seniors participated in programs and classes at the y that helped them build strong spirits, minds, and bodies.
$18,570,665 spent$17,776,095 earned by the program40% of program spendingDevelopmental care: the ymca provided child care for infants, toddlers, pre-school and school aged children from 6 weeks to 14 years old. Child care is provided for the entire day or before-and-after school. Woven into the ymca mission is a commitment to strengthen families. Ymca childcare programs relieve the burden of balancing work and family and make it possible for parents of children in our care to remain gainfully employed, knowing that their children are thriving in a safe, developmentally sound environment. Our child care locations meet and often exceed the required licensed standards. The ymca is the largest nonprofit provider of childcare in the washington area. Members of the ymca's staff are trained professionals, implementing a curriculum that encourages children to develop self-esteem, self-confidence, motor skills and a positive social attitude engaging in age-appropriate activities.thingamajig:not even a pandemic could stop the ymca's annual stem thingamajig invention convention from being held. Rather than be cancelled, thingamajig re-invented its presence to a mainly virtual event, allowing young people to continue to dream, invent, and present their inventive…
$17,116,132 spent$17,901,430 earned by the program37% of program spendingCommunity services: yfs:adults and children were served by the ymca's social services branch, ymca youth and family services (yfs). Yfs services include counseling, mentoring, and early intervention for some of our regions neediest families. All services are offered free of charge. Group exercise:group exercise experiences were provided in in-person classes, which supported healthy living, building strong internal communities, and creating lifelong friendships. Healthy kids day:youth and their families participated in our 2024 healthy kids day, and was supported by many staff and volunteers. We added a community service component to allow us to deepen connections, provide value added services, and support our neighbors. Community health:the y's community health department uses public health theories and best practices to deliver services in three core areas: health promotion programs, clinical integration, and policies, systems and environment (pse). Our health promotion programs are behavioral interventions that aim to decrease individuals' risk of chronic diseases. We then work with local providers and insurance companies to refer at-risk individuals into these programs. Lastly,…
$5,909,359 spent$363,047 earned by the program13% of program spendingResident camps
$3,058,226 spent$5,964,293 earned by the program7% of program spendingDay camps
$2,232,329 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $46,886,711.
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 $63M to $60M (−6%).
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 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 11% · 2020 14% · 2021 18% · 2022 25% · 2023 11% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
15% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Norma B Hutcheson
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $312k → $489k.
11 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 WASHINGTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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 WASHINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 WASHINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 30% · 2019 51% · 2020 31% · 2021 93% · 2022 47% · 2023 56% — 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
32% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
66% of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON'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 $5.7M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 WASHINGTON receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $17M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $520k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$500k
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
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 WASHINGTON
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 2 related entities
- YMCA Community Investment Initiative · exempt
- The YMCA Strong Communities Investment Partnership LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON?
- YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,503,394 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,263,925). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $16,503,394 in grants to YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,263,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 61 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