Ohio · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA
COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,914,053 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($1,309,333). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Community Action Waynemedina does
Mission
We strengthn the community through collaborations and services by promoting self-sufficiency, household stability and family and childhood education in wayne and medina counties.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Head start/early head start are federally funded programs for children birth-5 and pregnant women that use a two-generational, comprehensive approach to ensuring children and their caregivers are school-ready. Caw/m serves 373 hs children and 141 ehs. Services are provided for children and caregivers in the areas of education, health, nutrition, mental health, disabilities, parent engagement, and more. Classrooms encourage children to explore language, literacy, math, and science through their everyday activitieis using a researched-based curricula designed for the age-group served. All children are assessed three times per year in the areas of math, language and literacy, health, physical development, social-emotional development and cognition and teachers individiualize learning activities to support each child. All of caw/m's centers are 5-star step up to quality rated, the highest possible rating.
$6,732,279 spent56% of program spendingProvides emergency utility assistance including state of ohio programs such as home energy assistance program (heap), percentage of income payment plan (pipp), winter crisis heating program (wcp), and summer crisis cooling program (scp). Utility payments are also provided through some gas and electric utility companies and additional covid related funds. Rent, mortgage and utility assistance for those impacted by covid for a limited time.
$1,083,312 spent9% of program spendingHome weatherization services that increase energy efficiency in homes through services such as home insulation, improved ventilation, furnace repair or replacement, and refrigerator and light bulb replacement, roof repair, hot water tank replacement and minor repairs to help people remain safely in their homes all at no cost to income-eligible homeowners. Weatherization staff apply energy conservation measures utilizing state- of-the-art tools materials and equipment.
$1,485,902 spent12% of program spendingAll other accomplishments: economic assistance department provides car repair assistance of up to 1,000 per repair. Food is available through caw/m's rural food pantry with delivery available to seniors in the service area. Fresh produce is available in-season weekly through a partnership with a food rescue program. Transportation programs operate in each county through partnerships and include free transportation to eligible persons, mailing passes, verifying eligibility, and setting up rides. Wooster city transporation for independent persons, administered by caw/m, provides two transit loops in wooster with low fare workplace passes which are scheduled in advance along with some countywide medical, and other destinations through various funding sources to low-income persons, older adults, individuals with disabilities and the general public. Additional community services include outreach to seniors, connection to free legal services, free tax return preparation, a spring plant program and parent training and self-sufficiency training. Caw/m offers free car seat inspections to all community members through two certified car seat safety technicians. Caw/m is also part of the ohio…
$2,800,866 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,102,359.
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 2019 to 2020, from $4.4M to $5.3M (+20%).
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 93% · 2018 95% · 2019 89% · 2020 88% · 2021 89% · 2022 89% · 2023 76% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Kathy Breitenbucher
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $46k → $845k.
2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA’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
COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 100% · 2019 73% · 2020 37% · 2021 71% · 2022 87% · 2023 89% — growing more concentrated.
“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
45% of COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
97% of COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $73k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA has grown faster than half of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$68.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$727k
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 COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA
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
90% 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 COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA: 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 COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA?
- COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,914,053 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($1,309,333). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,914,053 in grants to COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA?
- OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,309,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ACTION WAYNEMEDINA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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