Ohio · Nonprofit
LIT Youngstown
LIT Youngstown (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,703 to it, the largest being NATHALIE AND JAMES ANDREWS FOUNDATION ($35,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LIT Youngstown has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005localportfolio match
- Zita M and Joseph Diyorio Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valleyshared funderslocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
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.
100% of LIT Youngstown’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $14k → $17k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 LIT Youngstown’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
LIT Youngstown has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
42% 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 LIT Youngstown.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 64% · 2020 37% · 2021 38% · 2022 42% · 2023 29% — 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
75% of LIT Youngstown's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
61% of LIT Youngstown's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $41k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- W&H Bender Memorial Fund Xxxxx8005localportfolio matchIL · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Zita M and Joseph Diyorio Foundationlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valleyshared funderslocalOH · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- National Book Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Literary Magazines and Pressesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Academy of American Poets Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lillian Schermer Charitable Trust 41-46497004portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Benevolent Association of Pottsvilleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equity in the Arts Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wish You Well Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo Iportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Springboard for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LIT Youngstown
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LIT Youngstown: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LIT Youngstown?
- LIT Youngstown (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $156,703 to it, the largest being NATHALIE AND JAMES ANDREWS FOUNDATION ($35,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LIT Youngstown have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $156,703 in grants to LIT Youngstown, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LIT Youngstown?
- NATHALIE AND JAMES ANDREWS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LIT Youngstown 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing