Ohio · Nonprofit
LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION
LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $966,199 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($955,611). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $643k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $966k
- Net assets
- $486k
What Lake Geauga Educational Assistance Foundation does
Mission
Leaf empowers learners to plan for their future through career, education, and financial aid advisory services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Leaf serves 24 schools (16,000+) students in lake, geauga, cuyahoga, and portage counties. Advisory services include: career exploration; college/career technical education program search; understanding the college admission process; fee waivers for admission applications and sats/acts; understanding the financial aid process; filing the fafsa form; completion of other financial aid documents, such as the ccs profile, institutional forms, and change of circumstance forms; scholarship search; understanding education funding options, including student loans; interpreting financial aid offers. Leaf also publishes the resource guide for pathway success; junior, senior, and career leaflets; and 16 e-newsletters that are grade specific. Publications are directed to contract school constituencies only. Advisors meet individual students and families at the high school, virtually, or at the resource center. They also facilitate in-school presentations, a financial aid night, and often a financial aid filing night, which assists in filing the fafsa form.
$320,693 spent85% of program spendingScholarship management:leaf manages and administers scholarships for several third- party organizations (known as community scholarships). These community scholarships are funded by the cleveland foundation harriet b. Storrs fund, the cleveland foundation willis kelly scholarship fund, willoughby south alumni, western reserve junior league, abb, eastern lake county chamber of commerce, erie affiliates, and three memorial funds. Leaf charges a nominal administrative fee to manage these scholarships. In addition, leaf manages and administers scholarships that are funded by our own donors and fundraising efforts.
$55,850 spentof which $55,850 as grants$12,842 earned by the program15% of program spendingThe resource center, located at the leaf offices in kirtland, offers the same services identified above to learners and their families at no charge. Services are offered by appointment duringlimited times, both in person and virtually. The resource center also offers virtual sessions, typically on monday nights during the school year, on a variety of topics that include careeroptions, such as the trades, manufacturing, certificate education, and the military, as well as other topics such as scholarships 101, financing your education, and how colleges recruit athletes. Each session has a subject expert, or a panel of subject experts facilitated by leaf staff. Attendance varies by topic. Registration is required and those who register can request a video of the session. All sessions are open to the community at large.
$33,675 earned by the program
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $376,543.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $352k to $486k (+38%).
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: 2018 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 9% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Patricia G Egan
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $142k → $145k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 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
LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
99% of LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 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 $11k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $956k 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
LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION?
- LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $966,199 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($955,611). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $966,199 in grants to LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $955,611 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE GEAUGA EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 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.
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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