Ohio · Nonprofit
IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION
IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,722 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($162,663). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $540k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $276k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Imagine for Youth Foundation does
Mission
Our mission is to help children achieve a healthy, active, and educated life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Softball event:the organization held a charity softball tournament that had players from the buffalo bills playing an exhibition game against each other. The game was held at sahlen field, home of the minor league baseball team buffalo bisons. All money raised from the event was donated to imagine after any expenses were paid.
$240,233 spent$366,280 earned by the program55% of program spendingOther initiatives to build community support and student development.
$128,975 spent$14,702 earned by the program29% of program spendingMicah hyde football camp:the micah hyde football camp is a free football camp offered to 500 kids, grade 3-6. Each kid receives a pair of nike shorts, a camp shirt, a nike bag, water bottle, ice pack, lunch, breakfast/snack, and an autographed picture signed by micah hyde. This camp enables kids to explore their talents while being coached by 5-6 nfl athletes, including micah hyde. While fun is the focus, the campers are able to work on technique and truly understand the importance of hard work, determination, and staying active/healthy.
$32,701 spent$47,848 earned by the program7% of program spendingKicks for kids event: a title I school is chosen by the imagine team, and each student enrolled in the school chosen is rewarded with a brand-new pair of nikes in addition to school supplies.
$22,998 spent$5,800 earned by the program5% of program spendingA teacher's wish:the organization fulfills teachers' amazon wishlists. We have teachers submit their names and then we randomly select from those teachers who will have their amazon teacher wishlist cleared up to $250.
$8,849 spent2% of program spendingBackpack drive:the organization gives out backpacks full of school supplies. The organization receives donations from local businesses as well as places donation bins for individuals to donate supplies so that imagine can pass out filled backpacks to the children prior to school starting.
$5,614 spent$2,500 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $439,370.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $652k to $1.1M (+63%).
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.
96% of IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Micah Hyde
Founder & CEO
Board chair
Tracy Troxel
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $59k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION’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
IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 82% · 2021 89% · 2022 33% · 2023 68% — 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 IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
61% of IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION'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 $106k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k 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
IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION 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 IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION: 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 IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION?
- IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,722 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($162,663). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $275,722 in grants to IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $162,663 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMAGINE FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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