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THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION

THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,831 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($344,785). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.1M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$603k
9/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%
01What it does

What The Breathing Association does

Mission

The Breathing Association serves the community as one of the leading resources for promoting lung health and preventing lung disease through education, detection, and service.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Provide financial assistance to over 11,935 low income, medically-vulnerable individuals through our medical home energy assistance program (heap) and percentage of income payment plan (pipp) services concurrently linking them with reduced energy cost programs and other services to improve their quality of life.

    $2,777,676 spent
    80% of program spending

  2. Provide primary healthcare and lung health specialty services and prescription assistance to more than 2,045 medically vulnerable low income clients via our medical heap clinic and mobile medical unit. Provide in home outreach services to children and adults with asthma, including asthma management education tools, equipment and supplies. Provide in home and community education programs for adults with chronic lung disease helping them better manage their health with information, support and equipment.

    $701,211 spent$19,176 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

  3. Provide lung health education to over 366 seniors in franklin county by reducing barriers to care.

    $13,915 spent$40,004 earned by the program
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,492,802.

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 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($536k)2018 Revenue 117 ($2.3M) Expenses 109 ($2.3M) Net assets 103 ($552k)2019 Revenue 149 ($2.9M) Expenses 120 ($2.5M) Net assets 183 ($979k)2020 Revenue 137 ($2.7M) Expenses 129 ($2.7M) Net assets 188 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 143 ($2.8M) Expenses 133 ($2.8M) Net assets 194 ($1.0M)2022 Revenue 151 ($3.0M) Expenses 144 ($3.0M) Net assets 170 ($909k)2023 Revenue 254 ($5.0M) Expenses 254 ($5.3M) Net assets 123 ($661k)2024 Revenue 340 ($6.7M) Expenses 323 ($6.7M) Net assets 122 ($652k)2025 Revenue 210 ($4.1M) Expenses 203 ($4.2M) Net assets 112 ($603k)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (203)Net assets (112)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.6M to $2.5M (+57%).

$862k
$875k
$1.3M
$1.8M
$1.7M
$1.6M
$2.5M
$1.9M
$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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 83% · 2018 76% · 2019 69% · 2020 87% · 2021 90% · 2022 75% · 2023 83% · 2024 78% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,632 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$123k
’17
$27k
’18
$408k
’19
$6k
’20
$47k
’21
−$38k
’22
−$295k
’23
−$67k
’24
−$107k
’25
0.2
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.

Chief executive

Iyaad Hasan

President & CEO

Board chair

Dennis Smith

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed252525232623232114
Joined·+4+2+2+4+4+9+4+1
No longer listed·42417968
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $127k → $177k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
CareSource Ohio Incunclassified
$35k
OhioHealth Corporationunclassified
$10k
funders
4
4
3
7
6
8
9
8
7

5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION’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

THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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

55% 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 BREATHING ASSOCIATION.

28%
largest funder
54%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 34% · 2019 42% · 2020 40% · 2021 37% · 2022 21% · 2023 30% — 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

56% of THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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

59% of THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
PA
KY
VA
DE
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $402k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 BREATHING ASSOCIATION has grown faster than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION

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

Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio Inc83%Breath of Hope83%Philanthropy Ohio83%Graceworks Lutheran Services Affiliates Group Return82%Columbus Medical Association Foundation Unlimited82%Ohio District 5 Area Agency on Aging Foundation82%Northeast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services Inc82%Bridges Community Action Partnership82%

Nationally

Breathe New Hampshire86%Breathe Pennsylvania85%Area Office on Aging of Northwestern Ohio Inc83%Allergy and Asthma Network - Mothers of Asthmatics Inc83%Breathe California Golden Gate Public Health Partnership83%Breath of Hope83%Philanthropy Ohio83%Graceworks Lutheran Services Affiliates Group Return82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

OH

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Breathing Association Lung Health Clinic LLC · disregarded

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION: 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 THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION?
THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,230,831 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($344,785). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,230,831 in grants to THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $344,785 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE BREATHING ASSOCIATION 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 22 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