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OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION
OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $912,500 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($850,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Early Childhood Resource Centershared fundersportfolio match
- Siemer Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Returnlocalportfolio match
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.
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 93% · 2018 88% · 2019 88% · 2020 97% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% · 2024 100% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $53k → $850k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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: $8k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association). These are real filings, and they are not money OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION’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
OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% — 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
93% of OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION'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 $63k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $850k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Early Childhood Resource Centershared fundersportfolio matchOH · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Siemer Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 116 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Returnlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 110 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Stark Countyshared fundersOH · backs 32 organizations that share your funders
- Child Care Aware of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mdrcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Childrens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CareSource Ohio Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Early Success Fka Birth to Five Policy Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Association for the Education of Young Childrenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Reinberger Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Greater Clevelandportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION?
- OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $912,500 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($850,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $912,500 in grants to OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION?
- THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing