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DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC

DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,000 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($810,000). 2 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
$3.0M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$5.8M
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 76%
01What it does

What Development Fund of Western Reserve Inc does

Mission

To serve and provide investment capital for low-income communities and low-income persons.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The company is serving as managing member for western reserve df affiliate xii, xiii, xv, xiv, xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, xx, xxi, xxii, acrf lender, llc, all of whom provide, directly or indirectly, investment capital to qualified low income community businesses pursuant to the new markets tax credit program.

    $937,991 spentof which $200,000 as grants$3,005,151 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $937,991.

02The 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 ($1.9M) Expenses 100 ($469k) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2018 Revenue 37 ($698k) Expenses 146 ($683k) Net assets 110 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 45 ($853k) Expenses 234 ($1.1M) Net assets 155 ($2.7M)2020 Revenue 74 ($1.4M) Expenses 266 ($1.2M) Net assets 165 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 52 ($981k) Expenses 156 ($731k) Net assets 179 ($3.1M)2022 Revenue 95 ($1.8M) Expenses 211 ($988k) Net assets 226 ($4.0M)2023 Revenue 75 ($1.4M) Expenses 325 ($1.5M) Net assets 221 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 158 ($3.0M) Expenses 231 ($1.1M) Net assets 332 ($5.8M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (231)Net assets (332)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 $6.7M to $8.6M (+29%).

$5.7M
$5.7M
$5.5M
$5.8M
$5.9M
$6.9M
$6.7M
$8.6M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.4M
’17
$15k
’18
−$243k
’19
$165k
’20
$250k
’21
$823k
’22
−$91k
’23
$1.9M
’24
24
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.

Chief executive

Rachel Bridenstine

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed99999987
Joined·+2+0+0+0+3+1+0
No longer listed·2000321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $373k → $85k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
total
$115k
funders
3
1
2
2
2

1 of 5 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 DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC’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

DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC.

72%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 80% · 2021 88% — growing more concentrated.

“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

72% of DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE 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 $315k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH
PA

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

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’21
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $810k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin64% · top quartile
Months of reserve23.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE 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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 9%Fundraising 4%

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 16 related entities

  • Akron Community Revitalization Fund LLC · disregarded
  • Western Reserve Df Affiliate XI LLC · disregarded
  • Small Qlici Investment Fund LLC · disregarded
  • Development Finance Authority of Summit County · exempt
  • Western Reserve Df Affiliate XII LLC · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC?
DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,000 to it, the largest being AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($810,000). 2 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 DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,125,000 in grants to DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE INC?
AKRON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $810,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DEVELOPMENT FUND OF WESTERN RESERVE 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 5 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