Ohio · Nonprofit
THEA BOWMAN CENTER
THEA BOWMAN CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,180,976 to it, the largest being SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ($650,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $598k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $639k
What Thea Bowman Center does
Mission
Tbc mission statement: we listen to the people of mt pleasant, learn and do what they want and need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Thea Bowman Center (center) food support program: over 9,000 community residents were provided food support in the fiscal year 2024 - 2025. Tbc's mission is to provide support to the most in need in the mount pleasant community. Our goal is to help address the issue of hunger for people with limited income and limited resources. Our weekly hot lunch program serves an average of 150 residents per week. This program is in partnership with four catholic churches and the sai baba center. The center provides a hot, nutritious meal every saturday and is open to those who live in the mount pleasant community. The senior outreach program: this program is designed to provide outreach services and healthy resource connections including social and emotional support for seniors 60 and older. In addition, we deliver food to over 100 seniors who are homebound. Tax return filing: the center offers a free tax return preparation service that has assisted over 450 residents.
$655,384 spent100% of program spendingCommunity education program-adult literacy/ged program: this program which started in 2009 assists people with completing high school by providing ged tutoring services. Statistics show that over 39% of mount pleasant residents between the ages of 30 - 40, do not have a high school education. Computer literacy classes are available to residents weekly. Currently, there are 12 students enrolled in classes offered twice daily. Seniors are most excited to learn computer skills. Mount pleasant is a digital divide community with limited home access to the internet or a computer. Job support is provided in partnership with manufacturing companies, hospitals and others looking to hire residents for various jobs. The center serves as the community host for job fairs and community engagement. This approach helps to connect residents to job opportunities including assistance with online job applications and resource networking.
Tbc children's program: the children's eight-week summer program provides a safe environment for 26 children (k-8th) to grow and learn. The summer program, in partnership with the food bank, provides meals for children in the community. When the children return to school, they attend an after-school program (3:15p - 5:15p) four days per week. This program is in partnership with the cleveland metropolitan school district which provides a variety of literacy, social and emotional activities to thirty 2nd through 7th graders on the nathan hale school campus throughout the school year. Mycom - my commitment, my community: this program partners with a network of over 90 community providers including schools and churches. Community partners connect with families and youth (over 2000) to ensure positive engagement to grow and learn. The focus is youth engagement and youth voice in the neighborhood along with family support. In 2025, mycom lost a major source of funding and transitioned lead agencies into legacy agencies. The center continues the work of mycom under a new child and family well-being strategy.
Volunteer program: the center welcomed over 700 volunteers who provided help to all of the above programs and services. The year-round saturday hot lunch program alone is totally supported by over 350 volunteers from five partner churches. Businesses, companies, schools, churches, community residents, community social groups and sororities, support our small workforce and all programs. As a small organization, volunteers are a major asset to our mission and service to the community. Accomplishments: our mission statement (listening, learning and doing, adopted via the 2025 - 2027 strategic plan) is our guide to community engagement, connection and service delivery. Therefore, engagement and outreach during the hot meal and pantry time on saturdays, connects the center to the needs of the community's residents. This connection resulted in the implementation of the food choice program. This program empowers residents to select the items they want and need rather than receive a prepacked standard food bank grocery bag containing items that often aren't used. On saturdays, community residents are invited to participate in other tbc programs and services offered such as job fairs and…
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $655,384.
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 2019 to 2020, from $369k to $774k (+110%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2021 5% · 2023 67% · 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of THEA BOWMAN CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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 4 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $28k → $460k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 THEA BOWMAN CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 31 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
THEA BOWMAN CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
49% 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 THEA BOWMAN CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 32% · 2019 54% · 2020 51% · 2021 40% · 2022 34% · 2023 43% — broadly stable.
“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
47% of THEA BOWMAN CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
95% of THEA BOWMAN CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $429k 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.
Against its field
THEA BOWMAN CENTER 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 THEA BOWMAN CENTER
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
83% 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 THEA BOWMAN CENTER?
- THEA BOWMAN CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,180,976 to it, the largest being SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO ($650,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEA BOWMAN CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,180,976 in grants to THEA BOWMAN CENTER, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEA BOWMAN CENTER?
- SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION OF CLEVELAND OHIO is the largest funder on record, with $650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEA BOWMAN CENTER 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 31 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