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DECA PREP INC

DECA PREP INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,749,858 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($1,616,508). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$16M
Revenue FY2025
6
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

DECA PREP INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,681 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($8.7M) Expenses 100 ($9.0M) Net assets -230 ($-849537)2018 Revenue 104 ($9.1M) Expenses 74 ($6.6M) Net assets 100 ($369k)2019 Revenue 107 ($9.3M) Expenses 116 ($10M) Net assets -238 ($-878986)2020 Revenue 127 ($11M) Expenses 133 ($12M) Net assets -453 ($-1670337)2021 Revenue 131 ($11M) Expenses 136 ($12M) Net assets -639 ($-2353546)2022 Revenue 168 ($15M) Expenses 128 ($11M) Net assets 244 ($898k)2023 Revenue 170 ($15M) Expenses 169 ($15M) Net assets 166 ($610k)2024 Revenue 217 ($19M) Expenses 188 ($17M) Net assets 754 ($2.8M)2025 Revenue 188 ($16M) Expenses 188 ($17M) Net assets 383 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (188)Net assets (383)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 22% · 2018 19% · 2019 18% · 2020 31% · 2021 34% · 2022 46% · 2023 45% · 2024 46% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

32% of DECA PREP INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,261 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$217k
17
$2.5M
18
$1.1M
19
$791k
20
$683k
21
$3.3M
22
$288k
23
$2.2M
24
$402k
25
5.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $93k → $38k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $50k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Dayton Early College Academy Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money DECA PREP INC raised.

From the IRS filings of DECA PREP INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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

DECA PREP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 DECA PREP INC.

92%
largest funder
98%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 81% · 2019 71% · 2020 98% · 2021 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

93% of DECA PREP 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 $116k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states.

OH
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

18
19
20
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 DECA PREP 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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Dayton Early College Academy Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DECA PREP 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 DECA PREP INC?
DECA PREP INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,749,858 to it, the largest being THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ($1,616,508). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does DECA PREP INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,749,858 in grants to DECA PREP INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DECA PREP INC?
THE DAYTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,616,508 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DECA PREP 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 6funders 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