Ohio · Nonprofit
RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND
RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,213 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $254k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $97k
- Net assets
- $-42023
What Ruth Lyons Childrens Fund does
Mission
To provide funding for gifts and events for hospitalized children particularly during the holiday season and throughout the entire year if possible.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Christ Hospital Center - Cincinnati, OH Provided grant to continue the "Mom and Baby to Go" NICU III Program where the funds are used to purchase sleep sacks, snugglies, swaddle bath blankets and sherpa blankets for the mothers. These gifts will be given to the Mount Auburn and Liberty Township healthcare facilities.
Good Samaritan Hospital - Cincinnati, OH Provided the hospital with a grant to continue the unique gifts whereas their departments provide each family with an infant in the NICU unit with a handmade quilt . The infants also receive embroidered RLCF onesies. Additional gifts are given as the newborns reach important milestones during their stay at the hospital ( books, journey beads, picture frames, booties, etc.)
Children's Medical Center - Dayton, OH Provided the hospital with a grant to maintain daily activities and programs throughout the year. These include pet therapy, pizza parties and birthday gifts. Inpatient pediatric patients are given individual gifts to take home upon discharge from the hospital.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
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 $177k to $-45860 (−126%).
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.
100% of RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $16k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND’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
RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 82% · 2021 55% · 2022 48% · 2023 47% — 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
14% of RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
57% of RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND'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 $41k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k 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
RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND
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
93% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND?
- RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND (Ohio) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,213 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($26,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $97,213 in grants to RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND?
- JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $26,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 14 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