Ohio · Nonprofit
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,267,831 to it, the largest being DESICH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,200,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $84M
What Lorain County Community College Foundation does
Mission
The lccc foundation provides support to each of the cornerstones of lorain county community college through scholarships and faculty development (education), innovation fund (economic), support for stocker arts center programming (culture), and support for campus grants projects (community).
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lccc and lccc university partnership scholarship program:the lccc foundation provided an estimated 1,356 scholarships to students of the lorain county community college and the lccc university partnership program. Awards are made based on academic success, financial need, and/or talent. The awards range from the more broad and general supporting the wide collegiate community to those more focused on supporting specific curriculum such as nursing, healthcare, and stem (science, technology, engineering, and math).
$1,217,959 spentof which $1,217,959 as grants55% of program spendingRichard desich smart commercialization center for microsystems:the lccc foundation provided financial support for the further development and operations of the richard desich smart commercialization center for microsystems at the lccc campus. Smart is a world class mems development foundry that provides cost-effective technical, facility, and equipment resources to startups, industry/academic researchers, and federal agencies that are developing mems-based sensor products.
$224,867 spentof which $224,867 as grants10% of program spendingThe c. Paul stocker humanities and fine arts center: also known as the stocker arts center, this premier center for the arts includes the george and laurie hoke theatre, beth k. Stocker art gallery, as well as the judge joesph e. And beverly a. Cirigliano studio theatre. The faclity has been providing space for performances and cultural experiences since 1980.
$179,857 spentof which $179,857 as grants8% of program spendingOther programmatic support made by the foundation includes funds paid for emergency student aid and support for the advocacy and resource center, the citizens for lccc, the richard desich sales institute, the roy and bobbi church visionary leadership institute, commodore cupboard, nursing adjunct faculty program, and various other programs.
$590,402 spentof which $561,159 as grants$6,000 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,213,085.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $71M to $85M (+19%).
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 19% · 2018 0% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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
Lisa Brown
Executive director
Board chair
Rebecca Starck
Chair, director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $738k → $532k.
10 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.7M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 73% · 2019 75% · 2020 49% · 2021 54% · 2022 40% · 2023 33% — 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
44% of LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
91% of LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $961k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
31%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,267,831 to it, the largest being DESICH FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,200,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $7,267,831 in grants to LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
- DESICH FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 29 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