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YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,180,959 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($8,414,547). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Young Women's Christian Association of Metropolitan St Louis does
Mission
The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Ywca's head start provides developmental and educational services to income eligible preschoolers and their families to help them thrive. Head start offers quality instruction and education, including literacy and mathematics, to prepare children for school and for a successful transition to kindergarten. Funded enrollment for 2023 - 1,229
$22,502,503 spentof which $765,356 as grants$474,340 earned by the program91% of program spendingWomen's services include the women's economic stability partnership (wesp), rapid rehousing for domestic violence, permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless women, and sexual assault and domestic violence services. Women's economic stability partnership program provides single women with school age children support in obtaining degrees in nontraditional careers that allows them to earn a living wage, and secure employment around their career choice. Women receive monthly housing, utilities, groceries, and transportation support, in addition to tuition assistance, all with the support of a life coach and financial education. The housing services are for homeless individuals and families. Rapid rehousing for ywca is specific to domestic violence. The programs helps individuals and families exit homelessness and immediately return to permanent housing through move-in and rental assistance. Core program components include: housing identification services, time-limited financial assistance, and case management and supportive services based on individual and family needs. Rapid rehousing is designed to to serve 72 women. Our sexual assault and domestic violence services are…
$2,032,590 spent$708,994 earned by the program8% of program spendingCommunity empowerment - this community-based program provides sexual health and disability education ("shade") for individuals who have developmental disabilities. The shade program provides education in the areas of healthy relationships, sex and protective skills related to sexual assault/abuse. Shade coordinates services provided to victims and serves as a resource to the community on issues regarding awareness and service provision to prevent sexual assault/abuse among this vulnerable population. Children & youth - includes various programs for children and youth, including early childhood education, before and after school care, summer camp and leadership development for at-risk teenagers.
$176,020 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,711,113.
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.
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 $20M to $28M (+39%).
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 89% · 2018 89% · 2019 79% · 2020 88% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2023 88% · 2024 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Cheryl Watkins
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $1.2M.
12 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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 WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 84% · 2019 92% · 2020 75% · 2021 74% · 2022 77% · 2023 80% — 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
40% of YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS'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
95% of YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $324k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $203.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$203.2M
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 WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Phyllis Wheatley Development LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,180,959 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ($8,414,547). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $10,180,959 in grants to YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,414,547 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 42 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