Young Mens Christian Assn

Analysis

Young Mens Christian Assn is a registered charity in United States, based in Bristol, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1944, 82 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 Assn reported income of $3.5m and spending of $3.4m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $3.5m (+88%), an average of +17% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 78%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Young Mens Christian Assn sits at the 88th percentile: it is larger than about 88% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 91st percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Living Water Family Services ($3.5m), Edmonds Food Bank ($3.5m) and Young Mens Christian Association of ($3.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 8.5% and program service revenue 64% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $898k. At year end it held assets of $3.0m against liabilities of $96k, net assets of $2.9m.