Ohio · Nonprofit
ORGANIC CONNECTS
ORGANIC CONNECTS (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,324 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($125,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $178k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $242k
- Net assets
- $70k
What Organic Connects does
Mission
The organizations primary purpose is providing academic enhancement physical well-being workforce development and recreational opportunities through outdoor exploration socialpreneurial activities and interactive experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
During the tax year the organization delivered integrated educational programming across three primary service areas: youth development environmental stewardship and workforce development. Under Youth Development 50 youth each participated in a minimum of 36 instructional and experiential hours focused on character development leadership teamwork and resilience through hands-on activities including equestrian care first aid training wilderness survival skills permaculture practices and ecologically beneficial construction methods. In Environmental Stewardship programming 42 youth completed at least 24 hours each of applied environmental education including water quality testing habitat restoration principles sustainable land use practices and regenerative agriculture techniques designed to promote conservation literacy and long-term environmental responsibility. In Workforce Development 20 youth received practical job-readiness training including eight youth completing 20 hours each and twelve youth completing 18 hours each of structured workforce preparation. Workforce activities included technical skills in equestrian facility maintenance environmental monitoring and water…
$121,660 spentof which $158,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $121,660.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
64% of ORGANIC CONNECTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Whitnye Long Jones
Executive DIrector
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $22k → $5k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 ORGANIC CONNECTS’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
ORGANIC CONNECTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
69% 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 ORGANIC CONNECTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 57% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of ORGANIC CONNECTS'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 $117k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $125k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
ORGANIC CONNECTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ORGANIC CONNECTS
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.
Public support
33%
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 ORGANIC CONNECTS: 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 ORGANIC CONNECTS?
- ORGANIC CONNECTS (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $242,324 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($125,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ORGANIC CONNECTS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $242,324 in grants to ORGANIC CONNECTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ORGANIC CONNECTS?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $125,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ORGANIC CONNECTS 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 7 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