Ohio · Nonprofit
ASPYR
ASPYR (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,515,859 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($1,399,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $276k
What Aspyr does
Mission
To partner with area businesses and organizations on workforce needs so that people are fully employed at their ability and potential in the thriving central ohio economy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Adult: job search assistance, assessment testing, career planning and development, support services, occupational testing. The goal is to assist job seekers to obtain and retain employment in high growth jobs and careers that provide economic independence. Populations served are unemployed and underemployed job seekers. Services are provided at area 11's ohiomeansjobs, job center and through a network of partners and contract service providers.
$8,539,325 spentof which $5,430,107 as grants49% of program spendingYouth: youth are served through our network of community partners and contract service providers. The organization develops strategies, service networks, and policies to maximize the impact of wioa youth funding and locally provided funding. The organization provides technical assistance to service providers to assure that services are consistent with and meet wioa standards and program goals.
$6,747,436 spentof which $6,251,483 as grants39% of program spendingDislocated workers: job search assistance, assessment testing, career planning and development, support services, occupational testing. The goal is to assist job seekers to obtain and retain employment in high growth jobs and careers that provide economic independence. Populations served are unemployed and underemployed job seekers. Services are provided at area 11's ohiomeansjobs, job center and through a network of partners and contract service providers.
$2,176,305 spentof which $1,713,746 as grants12% of program spendingThe ohio work incentive program accounts for all other program services.
$7,924 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,470,990.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $5.6M (+354%).
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 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ASPYR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Lisa Patt-Mcdaniel
President/CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 ASPYR’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
ASPYR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 ASPYR.
“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
92% of ASPYR's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $117k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ASPYR has grown faster than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ASPYR receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Labor$4.0M
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 ASPYR
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
95% 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 ASPYR: 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 ASPYR?
- ASPYR (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,515,859 to it, the largest being ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ($1,399,125). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASPYR have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,515,859 in grants to ASPYR, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPYR?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,399,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPYR 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 4 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