Ohio · Nonprofit
Lexington Bell Community Center
Lexington Bell Community Center (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,208 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($714,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $848k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Lexington Bell Community Center does
Mission
To strengthen, advocate and empower the community through the delivery of quality social, educational and recreational services with an emphasis on families and children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Services to Families and Children - Momsfirst-serves expectant mothers thru 18 months (child) home visits, resources, parent education, assessments, depression screenings, The goal of the program is healthy birth outcome, reducing infant mortality ratesBridge to Two 0-2, serves families thru home- based literacy program, early intervention strategies, social and emotional support for families, resources and goal setting for caregivers, goal is preparing children to enter early learning centers ready to learn. Advocacy for quality funded early learning slots for 0-2 years of age. Youth Development - Afterschool and Summer Enrichment Program ages K-8th grade, homework assistance, literacy, digital education, health and wellness, school readiness and summer learning loss, field trips, stem, steam. Kuumba Arts - Creative arts programming Yoga, drumming, dance, creativity, poetry, 18 months-adults
$736,193 spent81% of program spendingEarly Childhood - Provide Early Learning services for children 18 months- 5 years, assessments, social emotional, Health and wellness, early interventions, speech, behavior, vision, dental, Head start site
$172,007 spent19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $908,200.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $1.6M (+12%).
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 94% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 89% · 2021 84% · 2022 97% · 2023 98% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Lu Anne Peters
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $13k → $374k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Lexington Bell Community Center’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
Lexington Bell Community Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Lexington Bell Community Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 90% · 2019 58% · 2020 61% · 2021 56% · 2022 64% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
67% of Lexington Bell Community Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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
100% of Lexington Bell Community Center's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $267k 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.
Organizations like Lexington Bell Community Center
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
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 Lexington Bell Community Center: 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 Lexington Bell Community Center?
- Lexington Bell Community Center (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,316,208 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND ($714,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lexington Bell Community Center have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,316,208 in grants to Lexington Bell Community Center, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lexington Bell Community Center?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND is the largest funder on record, with $714,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lexington Bell Community Center 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 8 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