Ohio · Nonprofit
DAMASCUS INC
DAMASCUS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,577,046 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ($3,359,577). 30 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.
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
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Siemer Family Foundationshared funders
- Thomason Family Foundationportfolio match
- E Thomas Arington Family Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 (80% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $1.3M.
21 of 56 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 56 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; 54% 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 13 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 56 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Siemer Family Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 73 organizations that share your funders
- Thomason Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E Thomas Arington Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barney Family Foundation Xxxxxx0889portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catholic Foundation No Coloradoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Upward Bound Youthportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul P Tell Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- L Brands Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 88 organizations that share your funders · funds 200 organizations near you
- Harry C Moores Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 77 organizations that share your funders · funds 185 organizations near you
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared fundersOH · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Sutphin Family Foundation Icashared fundersPA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- The Thomas J Emery Memorialshared funderslocalOH · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 140 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like DAMASCUS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DAMASCUS INC?
- DAMASCUS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,577,046 to it, the largest being THE FOUNDATION OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF COLUMBUS ($3,359,577). 30 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 56 organizations giving $10,577,046 in grants to DAMASCUS INC, 30 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 56funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing