Ohio · Nonprofit
BLESSING HOUSE
BLESSING HOUSE (Ohio) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,682,842 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ($734,231). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Blessing House does
Mission
Blessing House serves as a safety net for children of families in crisis by providing a temporary safe home for children and support for their families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
See schedule oBlessing House is a faith-based non-denominational organization that provides residential care for children, 0-12 years old, when their families are experiencing an emergency and they need a safe place for their children to stay. Families receive support services to address their families situation including case management, advocacy and information referrals. Services are provided at no cost. Our families are dealing with homelessness, housing, mental and physical health issues, domestic violence, substance abuse and legal issues. We collaborate with others to provide support to families who have children at risk of abuse and neglect. We provide family support services both onsite and in home for our famiies as they struggle with basic needs, health issues, isolation, academic challenges and the lack of social and economic resources. For the year, we provided onsite residential care for 161 children from 87 families. In addition, we provided in kind support and information and referrals to families needing help. A total of 855 individuals received support through Blessing House.
$1,198,815 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,198,815.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.7M to $3.1M (+76%).
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 19% · 2018 18% · 2019 14% · 2020 16% · 2021 25% · 2022 21% · 2023 29% · 2024 30% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of BLESSING HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Sr Mary Berigan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $101k → $443k.
15 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 BLESSING HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
BLESSING HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% 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 BLESSING HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 35% · 2019 26% · 2020 29% · 2021 22% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% — 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
56% of BLESSING HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
95% of BLESSING HOUSE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
BLESSING HOUSE is better cushioned than half of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BLESSING HOUSE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 BLESSING HOUSE: 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 BLESSING HOUSE?
- BLESSING HOUSE (Ohio) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,682,842 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY ($734,231). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLESSING HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $3,682,842 in grants to BLESSING HOUSE, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLESSING HOUSE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LORAIN COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $734,231 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLESSING HOUSE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 60 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