Ohio · Nonprofit
ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES
ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,825,926 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($3,740,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services does
Mission
To be the focal point of societal integration for immigrants, refugees, and low-income individuals to help improve the quality of life through education, training, supportive services, and self-development opportunities while increasing awareness of the diverse cultures and heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Engage local youth in programming to help them succeed in school and as adults. Total number of students served is 822; total number of out-of-school time students 1557; pathways to success students 151; and 145 families; 15th annual youth summit with over 500 students; family school and community engagement- columbus city schools 2805 families, pickerington 654 families, reynoldsburg 400 families, whitehall city schools 532 families.
$4,389,660 spentof which $332,295 as grants58% of program spendingWe help individuals gain workplace skills, give them the tools to land interviews and have success in the workplace. We helped 403 walk-in clients at 4 community hubs; 450 clients were enrolled in services ; 455 students took esol/jobskill classes;35 rida accounts were opened; 66 individuals trained in entrepreneurship. The program accomplished- 11 employer partners and 1253 hours of jobskill training.
$1,266,785 spent17% of program spendingThis program helps clients with resources for aid, mental health programing and outreach. The clients have experienced mental health crisis, violence in the home, and housing and food insecurity. We have cared for 280 survivors of violence, 584 with outreach programs, 448 attended trainings, 7021 contacts made and 868 clients helped with wellness.
$1,230,703 spent16% of program spendingThrough global refuge and orr, we assist newly arrived and resettled americans into the community. We provide help with housing, learning english, job skills, job searches and basic needs. We served 28 individuals in reciept and placement, 29 in match grant, 30 in preferred communities- icm, and 27 in gap program from ukraine and haiti
$651,879 spent9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,539,027.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.9M to $2.7M (+42%).
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: 2020 79% · 2021 73% · 2022 76% · 2023 76% · 2024 93% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Seleshi Ayalew
CEO
Board chair
Mimi Mcginty
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $113k → $1.6M.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
85% 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 ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 55% · 2019 53% · 2020 37% · 2021 33% · 2022 69% · 2023 54% — 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
42% of ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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 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
ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $791k 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
ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES: 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 ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES?
- ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,825,926 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE ($3,740,250). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $6,825,926 in grants to ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES?
- LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE is the largest funder on record, with $3,740,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ETHIOPIAN TEWAHEDO SOCIAL SERVICES 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 21 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