Impact
What New York’s Ys do in one year
35 YMCA associations run about 140 locations that serve every one of New York’s 62 counties. Here is what that adds up to, from the 2025 Community Benefit Report.
| What | How many |
|---|---|
| Members | 890,636 |
| People in YMCA programs | 773,362 |
| Licensed child care slots | 35,035 |
| School districts partnering on child care | 210 |
| Schools with Y before and after school programs | 341 |
| Meals for New Yorkers facing food insecurity, from 25 associations | 1,418,658 |
| Young people who took swim lessons | 56,446 |
| Locations offering lifeguard training | 81 |
| People in evidence-based chronic disease programs | About 10,000 |
| Partner organizations | 2,259 |
Source: Alliance of New York State YMCAs, 2025 Community Benefit Report. Location count: Alliance testimony to the Legislature, February 10, 2026 (35 associations, 140 branches).
26
YMCAs offering free NY SWIMS lessons to children up to age 12 (July 2026)
Largest
provider of school age child care in New York, as stated in Alliance testimony to the Legislature
Sources: Governor’s office, July 21, 2026; Alliance testimony, February 10, 2026.
The programs behind the numbers
Child care and learning
Parents can work. Kids keep learning.
Licensed child care, pre-k, and before and after school programs with 210 school districts, including help with early reading. In 2025, Ys began a youth mental health pilot at school age child care sites.
Water safety
Drowning is preventable.
Ys teach tens of thousands of young people to swim each year and train the lifeguards that pools across the state depend on, at 81 locations.
Healthy aging
Older adults stay strong.
Walk With Ease, EnhanceFitness and blood pressure self-monitoring help people manage arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
