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DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE

DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being KELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$27k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$22k
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Defiance County Homegrown Workforce does

Mission

The purpose of homegrown is to assist local companies with workforce and business development opportunities in defiance county.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Homegrown's basic programs include providing market research and high-level technical assistance toward industry trends, search engine optimization, and marketing to initiate, develop, promote, and support programs that assist individuals and businesses in establishment, retention, expansion, and locating in defiance county.

    $10,218 spentof which $5,500 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,218.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($101k) Expenses 100 ($31k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2024 Revenue 194 ($196k) Expenses 814 ($256k) Net assets 15 ($10k)2025 Revenue 27 ($27k) Expenses 47 ($15k) Net assets 32 ($22k)
202320242025
Revenue (27)Expenses (47)Net assets (32)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 $84k to $10k (−88%).

$84k
$10k
$22k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,230 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$69k
’23
−$60k
’24
$12k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE’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.

Where its funders are

100% of DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

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

DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin45% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−48% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE

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In Ohio

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE: 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 DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE?
DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being KELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE.
Who is the largest funder of DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE?
KELLER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEFIANCE COUNTY HOMEGROWN WORKFORCE 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing