Ohio · Nonprofit
BE THE CHANGE VENTURE
BE THE CHANGE VENTURE (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,069 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Be the Change Venture does
Mission
Provide free youth development programs to low-income high school youth in both urban and rural areas.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provided professional development workshops for 500 high school students from inner-city and rural communities in both Cleveland, Ohio, and Lincoln, Nebraska.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $40.
1 of 4 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 BE THE CHANGE VENTURE’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
BE THE CHANGE VENTURE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 BE THE CHANGE VENTURE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
BE THE CHANGE VENTURE 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. $40 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
BE THE CHANGE VENTURE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,764 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,764 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2020
Organizations like BE THE CHANGE VENTURE
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BE THE CHANGE VENTURE: 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 BE THE CHANGE VENTURE?
- BE THE CHANGE VENTURE (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,069 to it, the largest being NEO Philanthropy Inc ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BE THE CHANGE VENTURE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,069 in grants to BE THE CHANGE VENTURE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BE THE CHANGE VENTURE?
- NEO Philanthropy Inc is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BE THE CHANGE VENTURE 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 FY2020 (financials across 2020–2020), 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