Ohio · Nonprofit
DAMASCUS INC
DAMASCUS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,616,650 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ($3,359,577). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Damascus Inc does
Mission
To awaken, empower and equip a generation to live the adventure of the catholic faith through world-class programs and an environment of encounter.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The summer camps, offered to middle and high school-age campers, offer toward living a high-adventure faith. The organization serves campers from every diocese in the state of ohio, as well as youth who travel from all over the globe. In the summer of 2025, 6,000+ middle school and high school students at our ohio and michigan
$4,449,025 spent$4,164,965 earned by the program46% of program spendingMissionary program. These individuals will spend either one or more camps. Summers, or 2 full-time years on-site in ministry leadership formation and training with damascus. Damascus missionaries meet with potential benefactors to solicit missionary support for damascus programs, and bring a spirit of joy to damascus' environment of encounter. 61 missionaries serve the organization during the 2025 year.
$1,063,897 spentof which $17,663 as grants$330,508 earned by the program11% of program spendingTransformational retreats for catholic schools and parishes are offered missionaries served the organization during the 2024 year. During the non-camping season. These retreats are bringing entire schools to jesus. Retreats offered include those focused on confirmation, faith & science, leadership, and specific high school curriculum. Facilities are able to accommodate up to 5 simultaneous retreats. Adult and student conferences are staffed by missionaries and mission staff. Retreats are also ran offsite by our national team. For the fiscal year over 8,500 retreatants were served.
$4,158,870 spent$1,489,347 earned by the program43% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,671,792.
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 2018 to 2019, from $17M to $21M (+21%).
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 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of DAMASCUS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Matthew Schlater
Board chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $1.3M.
23 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 DAMASCUS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
DAMASCUS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 DAMASCUS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 70% · 2019 38% · 2020 30% · 2021 34% · 2022 31% · 2023 47% — 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
33% of DAMASCUS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
72% of DAMASCUS INC'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 $3.0M that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
DAMASCUS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 203 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like DAMASCUS INC
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 DAMASCUS INC: 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 DAMASCUS INC?
- DAMASCUS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,616,650 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ($3,359,577). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DAMASCUS INC have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $10,616,650 in grants to DAMASCUS INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAMASCUS INC?
- THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS is the largest funder on record, with $3,359,577 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAMASCUS INC 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 59 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