Ohio · Nonprofit
PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE
PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,516 to it, the largest being Elevance Health Foundation Inc ($333,333). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $872k
- Net assets
- $787k
What Prevention Action Alliance does
Mission
Leading the way in promoting healthy lives through the prevention of substance misuse and fostering mental health wellness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Problem gambling awareness: with the advent of casino and other forms of gambling in the state of ohio, a great effort must continue to keep problem gambling at bay. Paa will build upon the award winning, prevention/awareness public health campaign in which it has been entrusted. This campaign provides positive messages to bring awareness and interactively engages the public to know the signs of problem gambling and the steps needed to reduce the risks.
$1,497,343 spent44% of program spendingMeb: ohio has a need to expand the utilization of meb ebp curriculums across the state. This project will allow the state to provide ongoing support to those teachers trained and implementing the pax gbg and provide training resources for ancillary staff and community support workers. Prevention Action Alliance will strengthen ohio's infrastructure by coordinating training activities for: 1. Pax tools community and human service workers, 2. Pax heroes and 3. Dbt skills steps a training.
$48,644 earned by the programAny teacher who has previously been certified in the pax good behavior game will be targeted for participation in the pax heroes training, while other student serving personnel will be invited to participate in pax tools community and human service workers training series. The 80 pilot schools participating in the ohio student wellness initiative will be targeted for the dbt skillssteps a training.
$9,034 earned by the programKnow: know is a community wide-partnership that targets parents of middle school-aged children with prevention messages. Parents receive practical tips and information to help them talk to their children about alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention. Prevention education and consultation prevention helps people develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed to make good choices and promote positive behaviors. Ohio communities continue to be impacted by addiction crises and mental health issues. To effectively address and prevent these issues, we must recognize prevention as an essential part of the continuum of care and invest in critical prevention services. Prevention Action Alliance and other prevention professionals are subject matter experts equipped to provide research and education to support policies that establish safe, healthy, and thriving communities.
$1,874,655 spentof which $327,680 as grants56% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,371,998.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.7M to $2.3M (+36%).
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: 2018 42% · 2019 93% · 2020 94% · 2021 94% · 2022 96% · 2023 93% · 2024 93% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $20k → $202k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE’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
PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 69% · 2020 84% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
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
PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $133 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
PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE: 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 PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE?
- PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $871,516 to it, the largest being Elevance Health Foundation Inc ($333,333). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $871,516 in grants to PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE?
- Elevance Health Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $333,333 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PREVENTION ACTION ALLIANCE 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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