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SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC

SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,242 to it, the largest being TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($103,169). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$973k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$286k
Net assets
$2.0M
8/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Sylvania Area Family Services Inc does

Mission

To create the highest quality of life for sylvania area residents in need by utilizing public and private resouces for their benefit.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Sylvania area family services is dedicated to providing essential social services to community members in need, including surplus food distribution. Our organization specifically targets low-income individuals and families living at or below the poverty guidelines, ensuring they benefit from our emergency food distribution, government surplus food, and our weekly harvest program.

    $519,007 spent
    69% of program spending
  2. Youth diversion program to first-time, non-violent offenders aged 11-17 (18 if still in high school) and their families. Successful completion of this program results in no juvenile record of conviction for the youth. During 2023, sylvania area family services served more than 42 youth and their families.

    $232,089 spent
    31% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $751,096.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($615k) Expenses 100 ($581k) Net assets 100 ($1.1M)2018 Revenue 89 ($549k) Expenses 85 ($496k) Net assets 103 ($1.1M)2019 Revenue 89 ($548k) Expenses 95 ($554k) Net assets 106 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 145 ($891k) Expenses 108 ($626k) Net assets 133 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 133 ($816k) Expenses 112 ($652k) Net assets 148 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 147 ($902k) Expenses 137 ($795k) Net assets 153 ($1.7M)2023 Revenue 150 ($922k) Expenses 134 ($781k) Net assets 169 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 158 ($973k) Expenses 152 ($880k) Net assets 181 ($2.0M)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (152)Net assets (181)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+26%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$1.8M
$2.0M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 16% · 2019 8% · 2020 8% · 2021 7% · 2022 4% · 2023 6% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$34k
’17
$53k
’18
−$5k
’19
$264k
’20
$164k
’21
$107k
’22
$142k
’23
$93k
’24
14
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.

Board chair

Jennifer Swiech Esq

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1617171717172018
Joined·+5+8+0+0+6+4+2
No longer listed·4800614
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $52k → $81k.

2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 14 of 15 funders by total. 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

SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC.

36%
largest funder
67%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 64% · 2019 64% · 2020 41% · 2021 55% · 2022 53% · 2023 62% — growing more concentrated.

“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

56% of SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

77% of SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
NC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES 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

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 4%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC?
SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $286,242 to it, the largest being TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($103,169). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $286,242 in grants to SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES INC?
TOLEDO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $103,169 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SYLVANIA AREA FAMILY SERVICES 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 15 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