Ohio · Nonprofit
REACHING HEIGHTS
REACHING HEIGHTS (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,228 to it, the largest being HEIGHTS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ($55,578). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $173k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $78k
- Net assets
- $338k
What Reaching Heights does
Mission
Reaching Heights advances educational equity and student success in the cleveland heights-university heights community through a portfolio of programs that support students, families, and schools.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
During fy 2024-2025 the parent mentor project provided individualzed guidance and advocacy support to approximately 640 families, helping parents and caregivers navigate special education services, understand their rights, prepare for iep and 504 meetings, and access critical educational resources. Family engagement increased by 25% over the previous year. Many villages, Reaching Heights' flagship volunteer tutoring and practice-partnering program, continued to provide one-on-one academic support to students throughout the district. In 2024-2025 school year, the program expanded through a partnership with heights libraries, launching an after-school site at noble neighborhood library. The program served 235 students, engaged 17 new volunteers, and generated more than 1400 volunteer service hours. The Reaching Heights summer music camp remained a highly valued enrichment opportunity for students enrolled in the ch-uh instrumental music program. The week-long immersive camp provided intensive music instruction and culminated in a publilc performance attended by over 150 guests and family members. 100 students, an all-time high, participated during june 2025. Reaching Heights…
$2,300 spentof which $2,300 as grants8% of program spendingReaching Heights summer music camp
$18,453 spentof which $18,453 as grants64% of program spendingRole models economic mobility program
$8,166 spentof which $8,166 as grants28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,919.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $236k to $338k (+43%).
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.
39% of REACHING HEIGHTS’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 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Erica C Penick
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $1k → $500.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 REACHING HEIGHTS’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
REACHING HEIGHTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 REACHING HEIGHTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 40% — 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
25% of REACHING HEIGHTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
100% of REACHING HEIGHTS's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
REACHING HEIGHTS's revenue grew 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like REACHING HEIGHTS
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
98%
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 REACHING HEIGHTS: 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 REACHING HEIGHTS?
- REACHING HEIGHTS (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,228 to it, the largest being HEIGHTS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ($55,578). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does REACHING HEIGHTS have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $78,228 in grants to REACHING HEIGHTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of REACHING HEIGHTS?
- HEIGHTS SCHOOLS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $55,578 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like REACHING HEIGHTS 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 2017–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing