Ohio · Nonprofit
ACTIVATING CHANGE INC
ACTIVATING CHANGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,445,294 to it, the largest being Vera Institute of Justice Inc ($4,766,171). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ACTIVATING CHANGE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 8,110 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,110 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Immigrant Justice Corps Incshared funders
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio match
- National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judgesportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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: 2023 26% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ACTIVATING CHANGE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1.2M → $2.9M.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ACTIVATING CHANGE INC’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
ACTIVATING CHANGE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
76% 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 ACTIVATING CHANGE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 76% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
ACTIVATING CHANGE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Immigrant Justice Corps Incshared fundersNY · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judgesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Respect Togetherportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caring Across Generations Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Just Trust for Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association of People With Disabilitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Human & Civil Rights Organizations of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justice Innovation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Checkrorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Futures Without Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forward Impactportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ACTIVATING CHANGE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- Department of Justice$4.7M
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 ACTIVATING CHANGE INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Project Guardianship Inc · exempt
- Vera Action Inc · exempt
- Vera Institute of Justice Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACTIVATING CHANGE INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ACTIVATING CHANGE INC?
- ACTIVATING CHANGE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,445,294 to it, the largest being Vera Institute of Justice Inc ($4,766,171). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ACTIVATING CHANGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $6,445,294 in grants to ACTIVATING CHANGE INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ACTIVATING CHANGE INC?
- Vera Institute of Justice Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,766,171 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ACTIVATING CHANGE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing