Benefiting the Community

Where there is a strong neighborhood, a YMCA is usually not far away. The YMCA’s characteristically friendly, accepting environment makes it a place where people of widely different ages, races, ethnicities and incomes choose to be together. As a sought-out center of community life, the YMCA is a social catalyst that transforms residents into neighbors, strangers into friends and, block by block, an impersonal city into a constellation of livable communities.

At the YMCA of Greater New York, no one is turned away because of an inability to pay. In 2008, the YMCA delivered more than $46.6 million in free, subsidized or sponsored programs to more than 350,000 new Yorkers, ensuring the availability of the YMCA’s programs and services to those most in need.

Over $42.4 million in financial and in-kind contributions were donated to the YMCA of Greater New York in 2008, from sources including the annual Strong Kids Campaign, foundation grants, government grants and contracts, as well as interest from the endowment.

Thanks to a balanced operating structure, the YMCA of Greater New York offsets fund raising expenses with revenues derived from membership and program fees, enabling 100% of contributed dollars to be directed to their intended purpose. This structure has been one of the organization’s greatest strengths since the organization’s founding in 1852, ensuring that YMCA operations are self-sustaining and not overly dependent on third-party funding for survival.

Learn more about:
Our generous supporters
Our annual Strong Kids Campaign
Planned Giving & Heritage Society