Ohio · Nonprofit
The Future Begins Today
The Future Begins Today (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,597 to it, the largest being THE TROY FOUNDATION ($462,414). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2026
- $153k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $797k
- Net assets
- $179k
What The Future Begins Today does
Mission
Provide nurturing, mentoring, and scholarship programs and services for at-risk Troy, OH students.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided last-dollar scholarships to 31 students attending 18 different colleges.
$39,764 spent61% of program spendingProvided mentoring, homework helpers, and other activities for at-risk students in elementary, junior high, and high schools in Troy, Ohio
$25,928 spent39% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,692.
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 2022 to 2023, from $236k to $206k (−13%).
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 The Future Begins Today’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Katie Clevenger
Executive Director
Board chair
Sue Borchers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $121k → $133k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% 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 Future Begins Today’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 Future Begins Today leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Future Begins Today.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 58% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 85% · 2022 76% · 2023 45% — 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.
Where its funders are
63% of The Future Begins Today'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 $297k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $500k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
The Future Begins Today receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $797k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 625 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Organizations like The Future Begins Today
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
93%
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 The Future Begins Today: 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 Future Begins Today?
- The Future Begins Today (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $796,597 to it, the largest being THE TROY FOUNDATION ($462,414). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Future Begins Today have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $796,597 in grants to The Future Begins Today, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Future Begins Today?
- THE TROY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $462,414 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Future Begins Today 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 6 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