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DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY

DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,886 to it, the largest being SAGAMORE INC ($335,386). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$459k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$357k
Net assets
$167k
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Declare Worship Community does

Mission

Create, foster and cultivate opportunities for believers and churches to gather to worship god and grow in a biblical understanding and practice of worship.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization sponsors events such as multi-church worship evenings which are open to the public, workshops & meetings for area worship leaders. The organization also organizes service projects for groups such as community cleanup projects.

    $391,837 spentof which $120,470 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $391,837.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($213k) Expenses 100 ($163k) Net assets 100 ($92k)2021 Revenue 121 ($257k) Expenses 154 ($250k) Net assets 108 ($99k)2022 Revenue 106 ($225k) Expenses 146 ($238k) Net assets 93 ($85k)2023 Revenue 97 ($207k) Expenses 131 ($213k) Net assets 86 ($79k)2024 Revenue 226 ($481k) Expenses 283 ($462k) Net assets 221 ($203k)2025 Revenue 215 ($459k) Expenses 304 ($495k) Net assets 182 ($167k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (215)Expenses (304)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $83k to $323k (+291%).

$96k
$105k
$90k
$83k
$323k
$176k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,342 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$50k
’20
$7k
’21
−$13k
’22
−$7k
’23
$20k
’24
−$36k
’25
3.7
months of
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

Kirk Lithander

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed444444
Joined·+1+0+2+0+1
No longer listed·10201
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'21
'24*
'25*
total
$335k
funders
1
2
2

From the IRS filings of DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY’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

DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY.

94%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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

DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.

NY
IN
OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY has grown faster than half of the 7,850 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,850 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY: 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 DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY?
DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $356,886 to it, the largest being SAGAMORE INC ($335,386). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $356,886 in grants to DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY?
SAGAMORE INC is the largest funder on record, with $335,386 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DECLARE WORSHIP COMMUNITY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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