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LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY

LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,644 to it, the largest being Trust Estate of George B Riley ($338,750). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$694k
Net assets
$1.2M
15/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly does

Mission

To provide support for the lonely and unsupported elderly.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support activities for elderly individuals.

    $351,215 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $351,215.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($825k) Expenses 100 ($347k) Net assets 100 ($688k)2019 Revenue 31 ($257k) Expenses 88 ($304k) Net assets 93 ($641k)2020 Revenue 38 ($317k) Expenses 104 ($361k) Net assets 86 ($594k)2021 Revenue 40 ($332k) Expenses 104 ($361k) Net assets 82 ($565k)2022 Revenue 41 ($335k) Expenses 107 ($372k) Net assets 77 ($533k)2023 Revenue 55 ($451k) Expenses 143 ($495k) Net assets 71 ($489k)2024 Revenue 54 ($442k) Expenses 153 ($533k) Net assets 57 ($394k)2025 Revenue 141 ($1.2M) Expenses 115 ($399k) Net assets 167 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (141)Expenses (115)Net assets (167)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 2024 to 2025, from $453k to $1.2M (+157%).

$697k
$646k
$603k
$580k
$563k
$515k
$453k
$1.2M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$478k
’18
−$48k
’19
−$44k
’20
−$29k
’21
−$37k
’22
−$44k
’23
−$91k
’24
$764k
’25
24
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

Ja'Lah Willingham

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed87998867
Joined·+0+4+2+0+1+2+2
No longer listed·1221141
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $70k → $118k.

6 of 21 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 LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY’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

LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

27% 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 LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY.

49%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 95% · 2019 76% · 2020 55% · 2021 51% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% — 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

82% of LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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

96% of LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
NY
OH
CT
KY
NC
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $177k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin66% · top quartile
Months of reserve24.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY

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In Ohio

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Lbfe Network LLC · partnership

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Questions and answers

Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY?
LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY (Ohio) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $693,644 to it, the largest being Trust Estate of George B Riley ($338,750). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $693,644 in grants to LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY?
Trust Estate of George B Riley is the largest funder on record, with $338,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY 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 21 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