Ohio · Nonprofit
Education Matters Inc
Education Matters Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,590 to it, the largest being EDWARD L HUTTON FOUNDATION ($690,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $0
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $0
What Education Matters Inc does
Mission
Education Matters' mission is to inspire learning and strengthen our community by removing barriers to education.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
The Education Forward program is designed to meet students where they are to move their education forward. The program recognizes that earning a GED is a key step in entering the workforce, college, or a training program. The goal is to help students re-engage in education, advance grade levels, succeed in earning a GED, and move forward in their college or career ambitions. Education Forward offers both one-on-one and class instruction to meet the needs of differing learning styles.
$356,151 spentof which $38,508 as grants$50,680 earned by the program54% of program spendingThe English Connection program provides a safe, accepting environment that serves not only as an English for Speakers of Other Languages program, but also as a bridge into the community at large by providing the tools for communication necessary to access employment, essential services, and safe housing. The overarching goal of the English Connection program is to provide a safe, welcoming environment where our students can learn necessary English skills and be empowered to engage and exchange dialogue within their community. We know that our community and city is only strengthened by our growing immigrant population, and we believe that providing access to learning skills that allow effective and confident communication is a basic human right.
$309,008 spentof which $31,507 as grants$50,679 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $665,159.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $5.7M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Mary Delaney
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $181k → $268k.
2 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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: $135k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Matters Cincinnati Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Education Matters Inc raised.
From the IRS filings of Education Matters 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
Education Matters Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 Matters Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 36% · 2019 51% · 2020 56% · 2021 52% · 2022 93% — 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.
How long its funders stay
29% of Education Matters Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2022, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
91% of Education Matters Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like Education Matters 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Education Matters 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 Education Matters Inc?
- Education Matters Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,265,590 to it, the largest being EDWARD L HUTTON FOUNDATION ($690,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Education Matters Inc have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,265,590 in grants to Education Matters Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Education Matters Inc?
- EDWARD L HUTTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $690,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Education Matters 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 17 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