Ohio · Nonprofit
LEAD FOR POLLINATORS
LEAD FOR POLLINATORS (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($44). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $11k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $44
- Net assets
- $3k
What Lead for Pollinators does
Mission
Our mission is to provide leadership, education, action, and development to support the health and sustainability of honey bees, native pollinators, and the keepers of the ecosystem.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
We provided educational presentations at seven educational presentations benefitting 140 individuals during the 2023 calendar year. We consulted in the planning and implementation of the Pollinator Protection Network National Retreat held in Washington, D.C. for members of 25 nonprofits.
$0 spentWe collaborated with fellow stakeholders in the MAssQuito Coalition, the Pollinator Protection Network, and the Akron Environmental Justice Coalition educating the public and policymakers concerning mosquito control, pollinator protection, the right to farm and keep bees in urban areas and protection of local wetlands. This work benefitted citizens of Massachusetts, the environmental community of pollinator stakeholders and the beekeepers and urban farmers of Summit County, Ohio, and the residents of Ward 4 and 8 in the City of Akron who are adjacent to the White Pond wetlands under threat of development. From the results of the Task Force in Massachusetts which we helped to create, we drafted legislation based on the recommendations of the Task Force to modernize the State's mosquito control program. Legislation from the Task Force recommendations was introduced in late 2022, and again in 2023. The Akron Coalition held six community listening sessions on environmental concerns of residents; we present the new Mayor with "asks" for his first 100 days to implement environmental protections and legislation. We facilitated the product development of a beekeeper from Georgia for a…
$0 spentWe provided education, outreach, and referrals through our website and social media.
$0 spentWe co-signed with fellow environmental stakeholders on 18 advocacy and education letters, petitions, and calls to action.
$0 spentThe Save White Pond wetlands neighborhood group joined with the Akron Environmental Justice Coalition to continue advocacy of environmental issues in the City.
$0 spentServed as fiscal sponsor for the Bee Heroic project who educates the public in southwestern states about pollinator issues; and as the fiscal sponsor for Bee Collective in Columbus, OH.
$0 spent
The 6 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2022 to 2023, from $6k to $3k (−56%).
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.
67% of LEAD FOR POLLINATORS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $20.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LEAD FOR POLLINATORS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LEAD FOR POLLINATORS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
LEAD FOR POLLINATORS's revenue fell 41% between 2020 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,119 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like LEAD FOR POLLINATORS
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 LEAD FOR POLLINATORS: 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 LEAD FOR POLLINATORS?
- LEAD FOR POLLINATORS (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $44 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($44). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAD FOR POLLINATORS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $44 in grants to LEAD FOR POLLINATORS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAD FOR POLLINATORS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAD FOR POLLINATORS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2020–2023), and the filings of 1 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