Ohio · Nonprofit
CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS
CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS (Ohio) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,014,226 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($1,695,079). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Crayons to Classrooms does
Mission
Secure and distribute school supplies at no cost to teachers of students in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Crayons to Classrooms distributes free school supplies through its teacher resource center. During the 20242025 school year, eligible teachers from 130 high-need schools and 13 childcare centers, identified based on national school lunch program guidelines, shop for free educational resources throughout the academic year. This represents more than 4,000 teachers and 50,000 students across the greater miami valley region of ohio. All distributed supplies are used to prepare classrooms for learning and ensure every student has the supplies they need to succeed. In calendar year 2025, teachers shopped at Crayons to Classrooms 3,719 times, resulting in the distribution of $2,799,249 in free supplies. This impact is made possible with the support of dedicated volunteers, who contributed 11,653 hours of service. Since opening in 2009, Crayons to Classrooms has distributed more than $42 million in supplies and resources to support local teachers and students.
$3,455,627 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,455,627.
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 $3.0M to $4.2M (+38%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Amy Wiedeman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $532k → $544k.
17 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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
CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 58%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 64% · 2019 41% · 2020 46% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 18% — 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
41% of CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS'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
58% of CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS'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 $1.7M 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. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $4.0M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS
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
91% 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 CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS: 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 CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS?
- CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS (Ohio) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,014,226 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($1,695,079). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $4,014,226 in grants to CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS?
- THE DAYTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,695,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRAYONS TO CLASSROOMS 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 71 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