Ohio · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES
FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,090 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ($29,369). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $187k
What Friends of Lucas County Children Services does
Mission
Friends of Lucas County Children Services ("Friends of LCCS") is an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of children and families served by Lucas County Children Services ("LCCS") and committed to generating community awareness of the need for more foster and adoptive homes. Friends of LCCS, consisting entirely of volunteers, fulfills this mission by soliciting donations and recruiting volunteers to help sponsor and provide enrichment activities and experiences for the children and families. The organization strives to provide the positive and memorable childhood experiences that every child deserves to have. The organization's activities also serve to uplift the foster parents, relative caregivers, and caseworkers, by showing them how much they are appreciated and by providing them with the opportunities to interact and gain support from each other.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Backpack Project. Purchased and assembled over 900 backpacks filled with school supplies to give to children under the care and protection of LCCS so that they could start the school year well equipped and ready to learn.
$8,105 spentof which $8,105 as grants19% of program spendingDuffle Bag Project. Purchased and assembled 500 duffle bags filled with hygiene products to be given to teens removed from their homes and living in foster care and to homeless teens.
$7,369 spentof which $7,369 as grants17% of program spendingBicycle Build. Purchased 65 bicycles to be assembled at volunteer event for children under the care and protection of LCCS for Christmas.
$6,350 spentof which $6,350 as grants15% of program spendingHoliday Party toys and gift cards. Provided toys and gift cards for the 400 children who attended the LCCS Holiday party for the children on the LCCS caseload.
$4,475 spentof which $4,475 as grants10% of program spendingTrunk or Treat Event. Provided candy and equipment for LCCS Community wide Trunk or Treat event to benefit children living in central Toledo. Over 2,000 children attended the event.
$3,309 spentof which $3,309 as grants8% of program spendingWeekend Snack Packs for the children on the Lucas County Children Services caseload. Purpose of the program is to make sure the children have food over the weekend. 800 children benefited from this program.
$3,000 spentof which $3,000 as grants7% of program spendingFoster Parent Recruitment. Sponsored several events to promote the need for foster parents.
$2,642 spentof which $2,642 as grants6% of program spendingFoster and Relative Caregiver Appreciation. Provided gift cards and luncheons to foster parents and relative caregivers.
$2,150 spentof which $2,150 as grants5% of program spendingBirthday Cakes. Paid for 206 personalized birthday cakes for children in foster or relative care and on the LCCS agency caseload.
$1,854 spentof which $1,854 as grants4% of program spendingGraduation Party. Sponsored high school graduation party and gifts for 21 teens in foster care.
$985 spentof which $985 as grants2% of program spendingCaseworker Appreciation. Provided lunch and treats for 200 caseworkers and support staff; provided refreshments for holiday party along with raffle prizes.
$956 spentof which $956 as grants2% of program spendingFamily Visits toys and treats. Provided toys, books and treats to Family Visits department benefiting families trying to achieve family reunification.
$645 spentof which $645 as grants2% of program spendingLCCS Adoption Day Celebration Party and gifts for 4 families adopting children through LCCS. Included food and other refreshments for party, gift cards, and decorations.
$641 spentof which $641 as grants2% of program spendingPaid for supplies to build playhouse for a child in foster care.
$250 spentof which $250 as grants1% of program spending
The 14 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $42,731.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $109k to $175k (+61%).
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.
95% of FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $5k → $4k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
84% 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 FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 75% · 2021 88% · 2022 49% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
93% of FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES's revenue fell 66% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES?
- FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,090 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ($29,369). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $108,090 in grants to FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO is the largest funder on record, with $29,369 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF LUCAS COUNTY CHILDREN 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.
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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 2022–2025), and the filings of 10 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