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Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc

Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,560,782 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($641,728). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
54
Grants received
$3.6M
Net assets
$359k
24/54 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc does

Mission

To serve and support lgbtqia+ youth and young adults.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Community-based wellness this includes housing services, case management, resource distribution, and assistance.

    $716,846 spent
    40% of program spending

  2. Drop-in center this offers after-school drop-in programming for lgbtqia+ youth.

    $310,420 spent
    17% of program spending

  3. Education and outreach these encompass training and education provided to professionals, focusing on best practices for working with lgbtqia+ youth.

    $307,864 spent
    17% of program spending

  4. Behavioral health this includes group and individual therapy sessions, as well as connections to essential resources.

    $255,674 spent
    14% of program spending

  5. Other programs this includes education and advocacy for lgbtqia+ youth in schools to create affirming spaces and genders and sexualities alliances (gsas) in ohio schools.

    $198,359 spent
    11% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,789,163.

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 ($535k) Expenses 100 ($444k) Net assets 100 ($418k)2018 Revenue 89 ($476k) Expenses 107 ($473k) Net assets 101 ($421k)2019 Revenue 129 ($692k) Expenses 162 ($721k) Net assets 98 ($408k)2020 Revenue 177 ($948k) Expenses 188 ($835k) Net assets 125 ($521k)2021 Revenue 216 ($1.2M) Expenses 208 ($922k) Net assets 186 ($776k)2022 Revenue 379 ($2.0M) Expenses 412 ($1.8M) Net assets 221 ($923k)2023 Revenue 439 ($2.3M) Expenses 487 ($2.2M) Net assets 265 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 319 ($1.7M) Expenses 556 ($2.5M) Net assets 86 ($359k)
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Revenue (319)Expenses (556)Net assets (86)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $2.3M (+99%).

$492k
$485k
$499k
$706k
$1.1M
$1.1M
$2.3M
$1.6M
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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: 2018 7% · 2019 21% · 2020 83% · 2021 82% · 2022 90% · 2023 67% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 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.

$91k
’17
$3k
’18
−$29k
’19
$113k
’20
$236k
’21
$196k
’22
$185k
’23
−$766k
’24
0.8
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.

Chief executive

Erin Upchurch

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1011131212151211
Joined·+5+6+3+6+6+4+0
No longer listed·4446371
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $83k → $824k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
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'25*
'26*
total
Crane Family Foundationunclassified
$170k
Panorama Globalunclassified
$100k
L Brands Foundationunclassified
$65k
Star Houseunclassified
$45k
Gofundmeorgunclassified
$39k
Legacy Collectiveunclassified
$33k
Gsws Columbusunclassified
$31k
Groundswell Fundunclassified
$20k
funders
7
10
7
10
16
19
26
14
12
1

12 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 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

Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

81% 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 Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc.

18%
largest funder
49%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 52% · 2019 36% · 2020 46% · 2021 51% · 2022 21% · 2023 18% — 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

29% of Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc has grown faster than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−45% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Kaleidoscope Youth Center 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

A Place Called Home Youth Services78%Spectrum of Findlay Inc74%Lighthouse Youth Services74%Imagine Productions of Columbus Inc74%Pathway Inclusion Center Inc74%Fostering Hope73%Agape for Youth Inc73%Transformation Network Inc73%

Nationally

Rainbow Labs Mentoring Inc78%A Place Called Home Youth Services78%Sky Light Center Inc78%Kaleidoscope Inc77%Kaleidoscope Community Organization77%Kalamazoo Collective Housing77%True Colors United Inc77%Midway Living Inc77%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 26%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc: 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 Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc?
Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,560,782 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC ($641,728). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc have?
IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $3,560,782 in grants to Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Kaleidoscope Youth Center Inc?
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC is the largest funder on record, with $641,728 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Kaleidoscope Youth Center 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 54 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing