Ohio · Nonprofit
LOOK UP MINISTRIES
LOOK UP MINISTRIES (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,285 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($144,050). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $312k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $303k
- Net assets
- $900k
What Look Up Ministries does
Mission
Look Up Ministries is a community center that serves through christ centered love, education and encouragement. Programs assist in meeting physical, emotional and spiritual needs including providing teaching, training and skills to live a christ connected life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Opportunity store: receives, collects, sorts and displays donations of clothing, furniture, appliances and household goods. The store sells/gives away items to meet needs of the community. The store is operated to provide the opportunity to buy and gain ownership of items allowing people a step up at lower costs than thrift or for profit stores. Thousands of people are able to get clothing and other household basic needs each year. Income from sales help provide a portion of the cost of operation of the store.
$146,829 spent$86,346 earned by the program39% of program spendingTrades program:provides nccer training, testing and international certification for basic construction skills for journeyman training. Day-one-ready electrician training is training is also provided. Osha 10 safety training and certification are included. Fork truck driving certification is also included. The program includes financial management, stress management, exercise and diet. Training and mentorship in various life skills is provided in a christ focused environment.
$52,268 spent$15,297 earned by the program14% of program spendingCommunity service: this program encompasses a number of services to meet needs including providing essentials. It gave free coats, thanksgiving meals, christmas gifts for kids, craft training, bible studies, movies and other events. In 2023 a network was established for blind providing information and education on how to use technology to overcome some of the barriers of the blind. Services include visits to local nursing and care centers to share songs and christ.
$66,229 spent$1,075 earned by the program18% of program spendingThe dental clinic: provides free tooth extractions and dental care to individuals meeting income requirements. Medicare/medicaid and many medical insurance plans provide limited or no dental treatment. Often issues are not addressed until they become more severe. Look up has a fully equipped dental facility with a manager, volunteer dentists and hygenists who provide treatment.
$39,326 spent$1,953 earned by the program11% of program spendingGlory rising pre-school is an onsite pre-school that started in 2022. It provides teaching. Crafts, games and bible school in a christian environment for children ages 2-5. School is three days a week.
$68,124 spent$9,044 earned by the program18% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $372,776.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $520k to $790k (+52%).
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.
61% of LOOK UP MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Sheila Klescich
Executive director
Board chair
Ray Brinkley
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 LOOK UP MINISTRIES’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
LOOK UP MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 LOOK UP MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 70% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 90% · 2022 45% · 2023 99% — 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
80% of LOOK UP MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
59% of LOOK UP MINISTRIES'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 $123k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $180k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LOOK UP MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LOOK UP MINISTRIES
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 LOOK UP MINISTRIES: 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 LOOK UP MINISTRIES?
- LOOK UP MINISTRIES (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $303,285 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($144,050). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOOK UP MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $303,285 in grants to LOOK UP MINISTRIES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOOK UP MINISTRIES?
- LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $144,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOOK UP MINISTRIES 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 9 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