Young Mens Christian Association

Analysis

Young Mens Christian Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Grand Forks, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in June 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Young Mens Christian Association reported income of $2.4m and spending of $2.8m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $2.8m to $2.4m (-14%), an average of -3.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Young Mens Christian Association sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Don Bosco Community Center ($2.4m), Ideas for US ($2.4m) and The Bridges Foundation ($2.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 6.5% and program service revenue 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.5m. At year end it held assets of $4.9m against liabilities of $913k, net assets of $4.0m. It reported 203 employees.