Ohio · Nonprofit
My Place To Be
My Place To Be (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,030 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($18,378). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $918k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $138k
What My Place To Be does
Mission
"My Place To Be" 's mission is to provide a safe place for children to express themselves and to learn in a positive way. This is a place where all children are treated with dignity and respect. "My Place To Be" is committed to providing the time, tools and
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
"My Place To Be" s mission is to provide a safe place for children to express themselves and to learn in a positive way. This is a place where all children are treated with dignity and respect. "My Place To Be" is committed to providing the time, tools and resources for all children.
$839,370 spent100% of program spendingMy Place To Be is a state of ohio non charered private school which is a provider of the jon peterson special needs and autism scholarship. We provide a multi-sensory approach to learning for children grades 1-12. Our program implements a whole child approach to learning. Academics are taught in a small group learning environment which caters to each individual students' learninf styles and needs. Programs incorporate meditation and social emotional learning classes to provide our students with the skills needed to help them handle life challenges in a positive way.
Summer programs - extended school year services. Due to our students special needs and the challenges they face, extended school year services are important so they do not lose any progress during the summer months. Our summer program is a camp like setting where students learn through exploration. We also provide a transitions camp program for our high school students that assists with job and life skills and career exploration to prepare them for life after high school.
After school - social emotional learning program. This program gives students the tool;s to build a social emotional base to help them make and maintain friendships, handle strong emotions in a positive way, stand up to bullies build strong self-regulation skills , and positive self esteem. This program was placed in hold in 2021 due to covid 19 restrictions and restarted in september, 2022.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $839,370.
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.
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 $78k to $226k (+190%).
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: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
29% of My Place To Be’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Larry Palur
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $18k → $13k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 58% 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 My Place To Be’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
My Place To Be leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 My Place To Be.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
58% of My Place To Be'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 $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
My Place To Be has grown faster than half of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like My Place To Be
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for My Place To Be: 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 My Place To Be?
- My Place To Be (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,030 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($18,378). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does My Place To Be have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $32,030 in grants to My Place To Be, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of My Place To Be?
- LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $18,378 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like My Place To Be 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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