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YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,066 to it, the largest being CORTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($450,651). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $881k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $710k
- Net assets
- $2.9M
What Young Mens Christian Association of Cortland does
Mission
The mission and purpose of the ymca is to serve the community by reaching out to everyone in the community in a spirit of inclusion and fellowship. Ymcas put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. Ymca programs focus on four core values - caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. We serve men, women and children of all ages, races, abilities, incomes, national origins, and religions. We provide financial assistance to those who need it. We identify needs within our community and respond to them so that the entire community benefits from our efforts.the annual scholarship program approved 122 youth and family membership assistance requests valued at $27,536 including financial assistance for afterschool, day camp and other youth programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The ymca's childcare programs include dropin childcare, universal prekindergarten, wraparound and jr. Camp adventure. These programs offer experiential and hands-on learning activities that provide challenge and promote spiritual awareness, mental development, physical well-being, social growth, and self-respect. In a nurturing and stimulating environment, children develop their physical and mental capabilities, recognize the value of cooperation and gain confidence.
$12,957 spent$41,466 earned by the program2% of program spendingThe cortland ymca stingers swim team has built up a regional, state and national reputation for excellence in swimming. Despite cortland's small size, the cortland y stingers have convincingly proven that they can compete against larger upstate cities, new york city and long island teams. Our swimmers have set records and won state, regional and national titles. Many cortland swimmers have gone on to compete at the collegiate level on scholarships at ivy league, eastern, western and mid-western universities. Members of the cortland y stingers proudly enter any meet as one of the teams to beat. As importantly, all our swimmers have proven to be winners by acquiring, through the program, qualities that will help them throughout life: self discipline and self-confidence.
$5,328 spent$8,315 earned by the program1% of program spendingProgressive gymnastic classes held at the j m mcdonald sports complex for beginners through competitive level. Ymca comets gymnastics team and pre-team are competitive teams where skills are acquired through the progressive lessons. The program provides challenge and promotes spiritual awareness, mental development, physical well-being, social growth, and self-respect.
$96,024 spent$153,221 earned by the program11% of program spendingYouth development: ymca youth programs such as youth and government and lead, provide opportunities that help teens develop self-esteem, strong moral values, leadership skills, and a positive work ethic. The social interaction, personal responsibility, opportunities to assist others, and educational involvement are some of the goals and ideals that each youth participating in ymca programs can work to achieve.
$743,782 spent$229,404 earned by the program87% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $858,091.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $3.3M to $3.9M (+17%).
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: 2020 18% · 2021 12% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $150k.
4 of 11 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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 73% · 2022 43% · 2023 100% — 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
57% of YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
68% of YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND'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 $224k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $486k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $710k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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 1 related entity
- YMCA of Cortland Properties Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND?
- YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $710,066 to it, the largest being CORTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($450,651). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $710,066 in grants to YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND?
- CORTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $450,651 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CORTLAND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing