Ohio · Nonprofit
GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE
GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,773 to it, the largest being THE WM M & A CAFARO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($53,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $156k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $104k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Game Changers Leadership and Peer Mentoring Initiative does
Mission
To create game-changing platforms and programs that increase the retention and graduation of high school students through personal and professional leadership and character development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
N/a
Provided aid to high school students through different programs that gave them the tools to build themselves professionally and help them for life after high school.
$146,045 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,045.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $10 → $27k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE’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
GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
27% 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 GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 58% · 2023 56% — 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
80% of GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% 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
97% of GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k 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
GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE?
- GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,773 to it, the largest being THE WM M & A CAFARO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($53,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $103,773 in grants to GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE?
- THE WM M & A CAFARO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $53,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GAME CHANGERS LEADERSHIP AND PEER MENTORING INITIATIVE 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 8 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