Ohio · Nonprofit
ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,016,165 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($987,753). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $17M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $6.1M
What Adams and Brown Counties Economic Opportunities does
Mission
To provide a wide range of services and opportunities designed to reduce poverty and assist low to moderate-income individuals in becoming self-sufficient.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Providing services to the low income individuals of adams and brown counties in the state of ohio. Programs include: childrens, energy, senior, recycling, employment, housing, community, and health.
$15,001,980 spent$1,456,993 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,001,980.
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 2017 to 2018, from $6.6M to $8.5M (+30%).
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 79% · 2019 88% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 90% · 2023 92% · 2024 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Wickerham
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $94k → $787k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 11 of 13 funders by total. 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
ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 47% · 2019 61% · 2020 44% · 2021 44% · 2022 44% · 2023 84% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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 ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k 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
ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 659 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$34.3M
- Department of Agriculture$377k
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 ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
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
91% 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 ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES: 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 ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES?
- ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,016,165 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($987,753). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,016,165 in grants to ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES?
- OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $987,753 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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