Ohio · Nonprofit
EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES
EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,844 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($18,391). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $29k
- Net assets
- $14M
What Education Alternatives does
Mission
The organizations mission is to provide academic and therapeutic services for students experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Education Alternatives was founded in 1999 as a non profit 501(c)(3) agency to promote academic and therapeutic services for students with emotional and behavioral difficulties. The first school year began with nine employees and thirteen students in one location. Fifteen years later, the agency employs approximately 280 clinicians, teachers, and associates and provides education for more than 400 students from over 50 school districts in ine locations in ne ohio. Academic services follow the ohio department of educations academic content standards, students take all state-mandated achievement and proficiency tests. Therapeutic services help students understand their disorders that may be inhibiting their emotional and behavioral growth. Group and individual therapy, crisis counseling, social skills and anger management training are provided. The ultimate goal of the agency is to help students learn to manage their disabilities and live a healthy lifestyle and contribute to society.
$13,992,086 spentof which $5,300 as grants$20,045,172 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,992,086.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $13M to $18M (+31%).
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.
0% of EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $343.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES’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
EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
89% 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 EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 71% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Against its field
EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES has grown faster than half of the 3,758 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Reach Counseling Services · exempt
- Cricket Lane LLC · partnership
- Fortress Investments Ltd · partnership
- Magnolia Managment Group LLC · partnership
- Clutch Automotive LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES?
- EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,844 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ($18,391). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $28,844 in grants to EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES?
- AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $18,391 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EDUCATION ALTERNATIVES 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.
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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 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