Ohio · Nonprofit
WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights
WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ($5,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $69
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $7k
What WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights does
Mission
The WORTH Foundation cultivates leadership and promotes civic and community engagement to reduce poverty and injustices, strengthen democratic values, and advance human achievement. We envision a world of empathetic, informed, and confident leaders who contribute to strengthening communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community Conversations: Our organization prides itself on bringing people together to discuss solutions to the issues their communities face. With our expert facilitators, we drill to the root of community challenges to develop solutions.
$0 spent0% of program spendingThe WORTH Foundation began to oversee the Dr. Tina Pierce Social Justice Scholarship Fund providing scholarships to Columbus City School graduates who have demonstrated a commitment to community engagement, social justice or political activism. Applicants must be majoring in Political Science, African American and African Studies, Sociology, Public Affairs, Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Criminology, Criminal Justice or other social justice oriented majors at a 4-year institution. On August 1, 2025 WORTH Foundation hosted a reception to honor the scholarship recipients.
$1,683 spent79% of program spendingOffice supplies
$442 spent21% of program spendingZelle Fee
$1 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,126.
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 2024 to 2025, from $9k to $7k (−23%).
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.
80% of WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Tina D Pierce
Executive Director
Board chair
Andrew B Pierce II
Board of Directors, Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights’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.
Where its funders are
WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights is better cushioned than half of the 2,277 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights: 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 WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights?
- WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ($5,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,500 in grants to WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights.
- Who is the largest funder of WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights?
- SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORTH FOUNDATION - Working Through Obstacles Reaching True Heights 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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