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ESPERANZA INC

ESPERANZA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,326,280 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($3,183,240). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.0M
Funders on record
71
Grants received
$8.3M
Net assets
$1.9M
45/71 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Esperanza Inc does

Mission

Empowering northeast ohio communities in need to flourish by equipping learners for educational attainment and lifelong success

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Youth leadership program provides after-school programs with the focus of student expression, reflective leadership, community service, life and employment skills, academics, career awareness, field trips, and post-secondary education.

    $1,103,775 spent
    55% of program spending
  2. The adult learner program encourages the motivation and active participation of parents and/or caregivers in the educational process of their children. In addition, the adult learner program supports parents and/or caregivers in achieving their own goals.

    $437,297 spent
    22% of program spending
  3. Our mentoring program matches 100+ college students with qualified professionals in the greater cleveland area. We use a user-friendly online program (mentorcliq) to aid in the communications between mentor-mentee, as well as esperanza staff.

    $454,873 spent
    23% of program spending
  4. Scholarship and other programs.

    $22,440 spentof which $105,000 as grants
    1% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,018,385.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($978k)2019 Revenue 107 ($1.7M) Expenses 119 ($1.8M) Net assets 88 ($858k)2020 Revenue 121 ($2.0M) Expenses 108 ($1.6M) Net assets 123 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 124 ($2.0M) Expenses 125 ($1.9M) Net assets 142 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 177 ($2.9M) Expenses 171 ($2.6M) Net assets 159 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 225 ($3.7M) Expenses 218 ($3.3M) Net assets 210 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 224 ($3.6M) Expenses 225 ($3.4M) Net assets 244 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 124 ($2.0M) Expenses 168 ($2.6M) Net assets 198 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (168)Net assets (198)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2.8M to $2.2M (−19%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.6M
$1.6M
$2.0M
$2.5M
$2.8M
$2.2M
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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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 4% · 2019 6% · 2020 6% · 2021 14% · 2022 42% · 2023 47% · 2024 51% · 2025 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

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

$99k
’17
−$69k
’19
$322k
’20
$114k
’21
$268k
’22
$336k
’23
$202k
’24
−$540k
’25
6.9
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

Ann Margaret Sanchez

President & CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed1821191919171721
Joined··+6+0+3+7+0+7
No longer listed··803903
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $415k → $1.4M.

12 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 ESPERANZA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 funders by total. 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

ESPERANZA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

63% 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 ESPERANZA INC.

38%
largest funder
58%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 49% · 2019 54% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 41% · 2023 34% — 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.

How long its funders stay

61% of ESPERANZA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 FY2023, 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

84% of ESPERANZA INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
MI
NY
OH
PA
CT
VA
TN
NC
DC

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ESPERANZA 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

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 15%Fundraising 7%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

89%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ESPERANZA 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 ESPERANZA INC?
ESPERANZA INC (Ohio) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,326,280 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($3,183,240). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ESPERANZA INC have?
IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $8,326,280 in grants to ESPERANZA INC, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ESPERANZA INC?
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,183,240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ESPERANZA 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.

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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 71 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