Indiana · Nonprofit
TOLSON CENTER INC
TOLSON CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,506,456 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ($13,146,356). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Tolson Center Inc does
Mission
The tolson center for community excellence empowers lives through inclusive learning, recreation and cultural exchange, opening doors to bright futures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Youth programs: tolson youth choir: a youth choir in collaboration with goshen college community school of the arts. Weekly, students in grades 3- 12th practice traditional choral arrangements. The students learn how to read music and perform at local establishments and in programs. The program is free for students. Accomplishments include: opening performance for the tolson center for community excellence grand opening, performance at two local elementary schools. Perform at tolson juneteenth celebration, and has served roughly 25 kids. Careerwise elkhart county modern youth apprenticeships: cwec is a modern youth apprenticeship program designed for junior and seniors in high school where they earn wages and gain relevant work skills. Upon completion of the apprenticeship, students earn a national credential from the united states department of labor. Apprentices work 16 hours a week working toward completing competencies related to their career path of interest. Accomplishments: tolson hosted its first two apprentices.
$788,059 spent80% of program spendingAdult programs including financial empowerment: financial empowerment sessions are in collaboration with inova federal. The sessions are designed for individual support from a financial expert to support an individual's financial goals. The sessions are based on participants' needs and wants, and are held at the tolson center. Accomplishments include: serving 5 individuals with their financial goals
$33,260 spent3% of program spendingRead with me: read with me is a program in collaboration with elkhart rotary and council on aging designed to support early reading literacy for students in kindergarten to sixth grade. An elder from council on aging would come and read to the students on a monthly basis. Accomplishments: a strong partnership between elkhart public library was established and 5 kids participated in the program. Music together babies: music together babies is in collaboration with goshen college. The program is an 8 week program designed for parents or caregivers and babies ranging in age from 0 to 9 months. The participants engage in a weekly music session led by an instructor. A cd and songbook are provided to parents or caregivers to continue to explore music with their infant. Accomplishments include: supporting 5 parents/caregivers and 5 infants.
$164,063 spent$17,979 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $985,382.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $5.3M to $16M (+196%).
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.
99% of TOLSON CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Nekeisha Alayna Alexis
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $716k → $8.7M.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 TOLSON CENTER INC’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
TOLSON CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 TOLSON CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 79% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
97% of TOLSON CENTER INC'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 $350k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M 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.
Against its field
TOLSON CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like TOLSON CENTER 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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TOLSON CENTER INC: 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 TOLSON CENTER INC?
- TOLSON CENTER INC (Indiana) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,506,456 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC ($13,146,356). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does TOLSON CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $13,506,456 in grants to TOLSON CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TOLSON CENTER INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ELKHART COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,146,356 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TOLSON CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2021–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing