Ohio · Nonprofit
ACTION FOR CHILDREN
ACTION FOR CHILDREN (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,987,497 to it, the largest being FUTURE READY FIVE ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $15M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Action for Children does
Mission
To transform the lives of children by supporting, empowering, and advocating for the adults who make the biggest impact on children's lives-their parents, caregivers and teachers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood community - Action for Children provides quality improvement supports, coaching, and technical assistance to child care programs and professionals. In fy25, this includes 2,540 hours of step up to quality coaching to support high-quality early care and education. We provided more than 4,552 hours of professional development training and coaching, including our 135-hour child development associate coursework which 84 professionals completed in fy25.we awarded $4,534,680in child care scholarships on behalf of hundreds of young children.
$9,562,052 spentof which $6,044,556 as grants$907,716 earned by the program69% of program spendingParents, guardians, and families - The Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Department continued to advance family centered services through community events, parent education, and strategic outreach across Central Ohio. The department hosted its annual Spring Fling, Back to School Family Fair, and Fall Fest, serving more than 800 families. These events, along with other community-based engagement efforts, provided families with access to child development resources, connections to community services, and opportunities to build relationships with staff and other families. Each event created a welcoming space where families accessed child development resources, community services, and built meaningful relationships with staff and one another. Across all FACE programs, the department supported 2,891 families in locating quality child care, connected 14,454 parents to Help Me Grow services, and provided over 1,600 parents with evidence-based/evidence-informed education, impacting 3,262 children. Through 3,433 home visits and 1,708 safe sleep interactions, the department met families where they were and helped them take the next step forward.
$4,233,076 spent30% of program spendingCommunity - Action for Children provides federal bureau of investigation (fbi) checks and bureau of criminal investigation (bci) background checks and fingerprinting services to child care professionals, parents and guardians, and other members of the community.
$104,988 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,900,116.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.7M to $7.2M (+54%).
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 88% · 2018 87% · 2019 80% · 2020 79% · 2021 86% · 2022 87% · 2023 93% · 2024 62% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ACTION FOR CHILDREN’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Matt Bell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $109k → $1.3M.
3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ACTION FOR CHILDREN’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ACTION FOR CHILDREN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 ACTION FOR CHILDREN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 92% · 2019 44% · 2020 47% · 2021 63% · 2022 41% · 2023 77% — 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
71% of ACTION FOR CHILDREN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
87% of ACTION FOR CHILDREN's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $418k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
ACTION FOR CHILDREN has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ACTION FOR CHILDREN receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.8M
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 ACTION FOR CHILDREN
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTION FOR CHILDREN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTION FOR CHILDREN?
- ACTION FOR CHILDREN (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,987,497 to it, the largest being FUTURE READY FIVE ($1,000,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTION FOR CHILDREN have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $2,987,497 in grants to ACTION FOR CHILDREN, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTION FOR CHILDREN?
- FUTURE READY FIVE is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTION FOR CHILDREN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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