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GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC

GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,411 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($296,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$686k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$453k
Net assets
$828k
5/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Geauga Growth Partnership Inc does

Mission

To enhance the economic climate in geauga county by attracting new business, supporting existing businesses, and preparing the workforce of the future.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization fulfills its mission by providing the following programs: adult workforce education and skill development; youth workforce education and career awareness/readiness programs; youth internship program; educator career awareness program(s); business support and development sessions; entrepreneur enrichment activities; coordination of roundtable support networks; ceo peer advisory groups; networking events and more. Ggp also coordinates business retention and expansion visits, including the support of a shared, county-wide database, with local economic development professionals.

    $505,020 spent$168,873 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $505,020.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($335k) Expenses 100 ($315k) Net assets 100 ($392k)2018 Revenue 116 ($388k) Expenses 94 ($296k) Net assets 121 ($474k)2019 Revenue 135 ($453k) Expenses 116 ($365k) Net assets 148 ($578k)2020 Revenue 129 ($433k) Expenses 138 ($434k) Net assets 167 ($654k)2021 Revenue 148 ($495k) Expenses 132 ($416k) Net assets 189 ($740k)2022 Revenue 159 ($532k) Expenses 183 ($578k) Net assets 182 ($712k)2023 Revenue 201 ($676k) Expenses 200 ($629k) Net assets 193 ($756k)2024 Revenue 205 ($686k) Expenses 194 ($612k) Net assets 211 ($828k)
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Revenue (205)Expenses (194)Net assets (211)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $474k to $578k (+22%).

$392k
$474k
$578k
$654k
$740k
$712k
$756k
$828k
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

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

$20k
’17
$92k
’18
$88k
’19
−$967
’20
$79k
’21
−$46k
’22
$47k
’23
$74k
’24
1.3
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.

Board chair

John W Epprecht

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2122222119212119
Joined·+3+2+2+1+4+2+0
No longer listed·2233222
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $27k → $162k.

4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP 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

GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

72% 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 GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC.

65%
largest funder
93%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 69% · 2020 72% · 2021 62% · 2022 67% · 2023 94% — 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.

Where its funders are

72% of GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $127k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH

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

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’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP 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

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 2%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

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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Questions and answers

Who funds GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC?
GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $453,411 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($296,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $453,411 in grants to GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP INC?
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $296,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GEAUGA GROWTH PARTNERSHIP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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