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Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc

Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,906 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($86,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$720k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$144k
Net assets
$-77888
4/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc does

Mission

The organization provides a variety of programs for individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as those with mental and behavioral health challenges, in order to offer respite for parents and caregivers

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides a variety of programs for individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as those with mental and behavioral health challenges, in order to offer respite for parents and caregivers.

    $723,248 spent$386,953 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $723,248.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($258k) Expenses 100 ($235k) Net assets 100 ($24k)2022 Revenue 298 ($769k) Expenses 327 ($768k) Net assets 106 ($25k)2023 Revenue 472 ($1.2M) Expenses 494 ($1.2M) Net assets 368 ($88k)2024 Revenue 279 ($720k) Expenses 378 ($886k) Net assets -327 ($-77888)
2021202220232024
Revenue (279)Expenses (378)Net assets (-327)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 $25k to $91k (+260%).

$24k
$25k
$91k
$83k
2021202220232024
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2022 55% · 2023 58% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$24k
’21
$1k
’22
$62k
’23
−$166k
’24
0.4
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

Lisa McCoon

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed59912
Joined·+5+0+3
No longer listed·100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $541 → $50k.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc’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

Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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

85% 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 Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc.

60%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 99% · 2023 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

85% of Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc'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 $22k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH
CT
CO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $122k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)41% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc: 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 Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc?
Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $143,906 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($86,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $143,906 in grants to Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc?
HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $86,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Pause for Parents Play for Kids Inc 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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