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LYDIA'S MISSION

LYDIA'S MISSION (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,292 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($145,974). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
14
Grants received
$486k
Net assets
$1.9M
9/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Lydia's Mission does

Mission

Employing women in micro-businesses and agriculture activites to provide them sustainable wages while generating funding and food resources to feed impoverished children and elderly.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. We provide jobs for women in farming, egg production, grounds maintenance and sewing. Teaching skills and reimbursed for sustainable livable wages. Employees begin each workday with worship together and participate in a weekly christian message, encouraging spiritual growth and community fellowship alongside their work. Benefits include transportation and savings match, as well as various appreciation gifts.

    $432,749 spent$75,211 earned by the program
    48% of program spending
  2. Providing daily meals at hope center sites serving more than 1900 food insecure children and 400 elderly. Participants also receive christian education and spiritual development. Women are employed as cooks and site facilitators. Food is produced through agricultural activities and purchased in bulk and packaged for sites.

    $212,865 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. Short-term mission groups visit the farm to provide volunteer labor and to support evangelism and outreach in the local community.

    $196,362 spent$191,998 earned by the program
    22% of program spending
  4. Support provided for the specific needs of community members and to local churches and nonprofit organizations that provide services to children and families consistent with Lydia's Mission's charitable and christian purposes.

    $61,393 spentof which $61,393 as grants
    7% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $903,369.

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 ($226k) Expenses 100 ($150k) Net assets 100 ($165k)2019 Revenue 161 ($364k) Expenses 138 ($206k) Net assets 194 ($319k)2020 Revenue 195 ($441k) Expenses 154 ($231k) Net assets 322 ($530k)2021 Revenue 219 ($495k) Expenses 224 ($336k) Net assets 420 ($692k)2022 Revenue 330 ($745k) Expenses 399 ($598k) Net assets 509 ($838k)2023 Revenue 545 ($1.2M) Expenses 519 ($778k) Net assets 782 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 555 ($1.3M) Expenses 632 ($948k) Net assets 963 ($1.6M)2025 Revenue 579 ($1.3M) Expenses 712 ($1.1M) Net assets 1167 ($1.9M)
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Revenue (579)Expenses (712)Net assets (1167)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 2022 to 2023, from $840k to $1.3M (+54%).

$279k
$392k
$530k
$692k
$840k
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.9M
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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

79% of LYDIA'S MISSION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,680 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$76k
’18
$157k
’19
$210k
’20
$159k
’21
$147k
’22
$455k
’23
$305k
’24
$241k
’25
6.3
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

Mitchell Hildebrant

Us executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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

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Listed67777988
Joined·+1+0+0+1+3+0+3
No longer listed·0001113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $34k → $71k.

10 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 LYDIA'S MISSION’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

LYDIA'S MISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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

72% 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 LYDIA'S MISSION.

30%
largest funder
67%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 30% · 2020 63% · 2021 83% · 2022 26% · 2023 33% — 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 LYDIA'S MISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

72% of LYDIA'S MISSION'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 $134k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states.

WA
IL
TN
FL

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $352k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LYDIA'S MISSION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 798 international nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · top quartile
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)29% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 798 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LYDIA'S MISSION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 13%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members
56%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds LYDIA'S MISSION?
LYDIA'S MISSION (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $486,292 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($145,974). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LYDIA'S MISSION have?
IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $486,292 in grants to LYDIA'S MISSION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LYDIA'S MISSION?
DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY is the largest funder on record, with $145,974 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LYDIA'S MISSION 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 14 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