Ohio · Nonprofit
BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD
BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $331,059 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($46,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $331k
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Because I Said I Would does
Mission
To better humanity through promises made and kept.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Chapter education programs focus on the ethical, intellectual, social and emotional development of students while instilling a sense of civic duty. We provide students with the opportunity to build the self-control needed to face lifes challenges. With a focus on core values like honesty, accountability and compassion, our aim is to help build stronger citizens through promises made and kept. Our chapter education programs take place in communities, schoools, and correctional facilities, as well as, on site at our camp and include: schollwide impact programs kicked off with a motivational assembly, lesson plans for educators, and workshops featuring animated videos and engaging activities.
$417,542 spent$44,618 earned by the program37% of program spendingThe promise to volunteer. Less than 25% of all americans volunteer. Few promises are more important than to show up. This program creates plans for impactful volunteer projects, staff support to chapter volunteer projects, and promise badges that reward good citizenship and promises kept to yourself and others.
$90,279 spent$44,618 earned by the program8% of program spendingAwareness campaigns and public resources. Society needs to be reminded that promises still matter and a handshake still means something. Our awareness campaigns reach hundreds of thousands of people annually through public service announcements through social media, worldwide newsletters that include compelling supporter promise stories, speaches at charities, schools, and juvenile detention centers, and local and national media coverage.
$383,688 spent$2,030,105 earned by the program34% of program spendingAccountabilty best practices. You are 46% more likely to fulfil a promise if you share it with someone. We provide promise cards and a framework for planning your promises and holding yourself accountable. This framework includes promise planner worksheets, accountability programs in schools, communities, and correctional facilities and free promise cards.
$236,984 spent$111,544 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,128,493.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $4.3M (+248%).
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: 2021 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Manish Patel
Interim chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $100 → $51k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD’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
BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 86% · 2021 54% · 2022 71% · 2023 30% — diversifying over time.
“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
14% of BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,003 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,003 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD
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
81% 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 BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD: 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 BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD?
- BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $331,059 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($46,900). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $331,059 in grants to BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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