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IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION
IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,845,503 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $50M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $38M
What Ironton and Lawrence County Area Community Action Organization does
Mission
It is our purpose to provide high quality services to eligible residents, on a non-discriminatory basis, in a dignified manner, that will promote family values. We will work diligently to improve the economic conditions of our community toward the elimination of the causes of poverty. We commit ourselves to these goals with compassion and dedication to promote decent housing, healthcare, job training, education and employment opportunities in a concentrated effort to remove barriers to self-respect and reach maximum potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Rural health - the family medical centers are funded through the rural health initiative of the bureau of primary health care. They are community based health centers with over 25 years experience in providing cost effective, high quality health care for the people of lawrence county and surrounding areas. In 1999, our medical centers received accreditation from the joint commission on accreditation of health care orgainizations. This accreditation required almost two years of intensive preparation and was rewarded with high marks during the accreditation process. Family medicine provides care for young and old alike. The medical centers provide acute as well as chronic care. They place a special emphasis on preventive care service's and offer the personal touch of the old fashioned family doctor. The medical centers serve those who have insurance and can afford to pay, elderly persons on medicare, and families that can not afford to pay.
$20,064,916 spent$416,979 earned by the program52% of program spendingHeadstart seeks to provide high quality early education and child care to the community. This includes preschool programs for children, ages birth through five years old, and special services for pregnant women, infants and toddlers. We also provide many opportunities for training, employment, and individual and family development.
$9,752,883 spent$2,208,036 earned by the program25% of program spendingCommunity development - the department of community development provides a number of services including such activities as providing emergency housing assistance to homeless persons, working to provide economic development/job creation opportunities throughout the county, improving and expanding public infrastructure to unserved and underserved areas in the county and performing the duties as the administering agent for various grants at the county and municipal level.the work performed by the department either directly or indirectly touches the lives of nearly all of the residents of lawrence county.senior services - a variety of services are offered by the senior services program of cao in an effort to meet the physical and emotional needs of older area residents. For many seniors, it becomes like family because they have no one else.home energy assistance program - a program focused on providing heat and energy assistance to individuals who are over 60 years of age and have a medical condition.home weatherization assistance program - this program is a federally-funded, low-income, residential energy efficiency program that reduces energy use of qualified households throughout…
$6,345,663 spent$25,566,250 earned by the program16% of program spendingWorkforce development
$2,475,362 spent$149,354 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $38,638,824.
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.
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 $57M to $96M (+68%).
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: 2017 53% · 2018 53% · 2019 53% · 2020 53% · 2021 51% · 2022 49% · 2023 41% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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
Donald Gossett
CEO/executive director
Board chair
Joy Corn
Chair person
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $185k → $1.3M.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION’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
IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 54% · 2021 64% · 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION'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 $2.8M that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.0M 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.
Government funding IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $118.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$117.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.3M
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.
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 17 related entities
- Charley Creek Apartments Limited Partnership · partnership
- Iljk LLC · partnership
- Ironton Medical Campus Partners I LLC · partnership
- Lawrence Village Apartments LLC · partnership
- Old Engineer Property LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION?
- IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,845,503 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($5,000,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $7,845,503 in grants to IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $5,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IRONTON AND LAWRENCE COUNTY AREA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION 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 6 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