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THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,214,423 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($411,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$7.7M
10/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What The Alpaugh Family Economics Center for Education and Research does

Mission

The economics center provides students in grades k-12 with the basic knowledge about earning money, setting budgets, living within means and saving for the future. Students are also introduced to the stock market and the concept of investing and learn how local, regional, national, and global issues influence personal wealth.each year the center reaches:- 6,200 elementary students from 25 elementary schools- 4,900 high school students for various financial education programs- over 500 teachers trained impacting 26,000 students

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide economic education courses to the community in order to educate local students about the american free-enterprise system and persuade them to remain in school.

    $1,581,741 spent$1,306,419 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,581,741.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 100 ($2.3M)2018 Revenue 127 ($2.7M) Expenses 95 ($2.1M) Net assets 128 ($2.9M)2019 Revenue 100 ($2.1M) Expenses 100 ($2.2M) Net assets 124 ($2.8M)2020 Revenue 197 ($4.2M) Expenses 93 ($2.1M) Net assets 209 ($4.7M)2021 Revenue 84 ($1.8M) Expenses 66 ($1.5M) Net assets 248 ($5.6M)2022 Revenue 109 ($2.3M) Expenses 84 ($1.9M) Net assets 270 ($6.1M)2023 Revenue 99 ($2.1M) Expenses 88 ($2.0M) Net assets 281 ($6.4M)2024 Revenue 102 ($2.2M) Expenses 84 ($1.9M) Net assets 308 ($7.0M)2025 Revenue 99 ($2.1M) Expenses 87 ($1.9M) Net assets 341 ($7.7M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (87)Net assets (341)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 2019 to 2020, from $2.9M to $5.0M (+72%).

$2.5M
$3.0M
$2.9M
$5.0M
$5.9M
$6.1M
$6.4M
$7.0M
$7.7M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 14% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

26% of THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 184 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$100k
’17
$604k
’18
−$86k
’19
$2.1M
’20
$325k
’21
$463k
’22
$135k
’23
$304k
’24
$172k
’25
11
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

Ben Willingham

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed444646454545454340
Joined·+5+5+3+6+1+8+5+4
No longer listed·35461877
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $34k → $66k.

9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $385k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH raised.

From the IRS filings of THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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

THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

71% 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 THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH.

34%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 92% · 2019 41% · 2020 76% · 2021 34% · 2022 45% · 2023 27% — 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

36% of THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

67% of THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH'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 $396k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
FL

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $818k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve11.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 11%Fundraising 8%

Governance

40
board members
95%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH?
THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,214,423 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($411,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,214,423 in grants to THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $411,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH find more funders?
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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 18 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