Ohio · Nonprofit
AWAKENING MINDS
AWAKENING MINDS (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,861 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($94,839). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $195k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $129k
- Net assets
- $103k
What Awakening Minds does
Mission
To provide therapeutic and educational visual art programs to all ages & abilities, empowering individuals to build functional everyday skills and confidence.to create affirming, all-inclusive spaces where people have the confidence to develop into the best version of themselves. Awakening Minds works towards building skills that help people not only feel success within our community, but to be successful throughout their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Group programming:findlay & leipsic homeschool visual arts classes4 classes seen once a week or twice a month during the school year.agencies48 agencies served throughout the year (up from 33 in 2024), including:28 senior living, nursing, and memory care facilities - up from 21 in 2024 & 13 in 20235 day-habs and 9 local nonprofits seen on a bi-weekly, monthly or bi-monthly basisschool classrooms49 individual classrooms in 22 different schools - up from 6 schools in 2023!teachers/administration applied to & received grants at fcs, allen co, hancock co, putnam co esc'sprivate groupsin addition to regularly scheduled programs, ama had 36 private groups, including classes for families, friends, and teambuilding
$67,732 spent$54,692 earned by the program62% of program spendingCommunity programming:- 1 monthly painting class, open to all ages & abilities at the Awakening Minds art studio.- specialty classes and summer classes/camps are also held at the studio.- tri the arts summer camp in collaboration with mcpa and heartstring melodies with 22 campers and 23 volunteers spreading the awesome joy and therapeutic power of art, inclusion, and friendship!- the findlay-hancock community foundation granted ama 8 fun for all classes - free public art eventsama partnered with 13 local businesses and organizations to provide more accessibility to the arts, including: - the leipsic community center, gillig winery, false chord brewing, brewing green, hull's trace wine & gathering house, the baker's caf, the children's museum of findlay, hancock hotel, fop lodge #20, reading grounds, 50 north, hancock county public library, and hancock co. Parkinson's network - cops & kids get creative, free classes in collaboration with cops & kids, was made possible by the marianna hofer endowment grant.- free programming & adaptive tools, provided by a grant from the hancock county parkinson's network, began in 2025 for individuals with parkinson's and their caregivers.
$18,572 spent$15,406 earned by the program17% of program spendingOne-on-one program-38 individual students - seen weekly, biweekly, or once a month
$22,942 spent$18,475 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $109,246.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $78k to $111k (+43%).
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: 2020 5% · 2021 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of AWAKENING MINDS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Emily Sullivan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $32k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 AWAKENING MINDS’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
AWAKENING MINDS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 AWAKENING MINDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 48% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
17% of AWAKENING MINDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 22% 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
86% of AWAKENING MINDS'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k 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
AWAKENING MINDS is better cushioned than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AWAKENING MINDS
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AWAKENING MINDS: 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 AWAKENING MINDS?
- AWAKENING MINDS (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,861 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($94,839). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AWAKENING MINDS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $128,861 in grants to AWAKENING MINDS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AWAKENING MINDS?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $94,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AWAKENING MINDS 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing