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ZORA'S HOUSE INC

ZORA'S HOUSE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000,473 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($2,252,390). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$2.2M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$5.0M
Net assets
$5.1M
15/28 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Zora's House Inc does

Mission

Zora's house is the only coworking space and leadership incubator in the state of ohio created by and for women of color (woc). Our mission is to create a safe space for woc to establish meaningful, supportive relationships with other women in their community; develop a deeper practice of self-care, resiliency, and emotional intelligence; and successfully incubate their creativity, scholarship, entrepreneurship, activism, service, and leadership. Since being founded in 2018, zora's house has helped over 5,000 women of color: incubate their businesses, scholarship, creativity, and activism; activate their leadership in their families, communities and workplaces; build deeper support networks and connect with mental health resources; navigate job losses and other economic fluctuations; and gain financial empowerment and confidence.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Leadership development zora's house builds stronger support networks, fosters greater emotional resiliency, and offers innovative programs and resources to connect women of color to meaningful career and leadership pathways. Through programs like our leadership fellows program, sunday dinner series, and other programs, zora's house plays an important role in connecting women+ of color to the opportunities, mentorship, technical assistance, and resources they need to thrive now and in the future.

    $194,881 spent$12,168 earned by the program
    26% of program spending
  2. Economic empowerment since 2021 zora's house has incubated over 50 women+ of color owned businesses, directly addressing the needs of many women who started businesses as a result of income instability. Additionally, zora's house has facilitated 636,697 of direct economic impact in new jobs, promotions, contracts and funding for its members since 2021; and in 2024 our women of color owned markets supported over sixty-five woc artisans and entrepreneurs, generating 60,000 in revenue.

    $499,503 spent$31,431 earned by the program
    66% of program spending
  3. Racial equity zora's house - the first and only community space and leadership incubator in ohio created by and for women+ of color - works to dismantle barriers of systemic racism and sexism, and to ensure the full participation of women+ of color in the civic, economic, and cultural life of franklin county. Since 2020, our black feminist night school has reached over 2000 women+ of color and allies and our woc equity design institute received a 1.5m investment from jpmorgan chase and has trained 60 equity design practitioners in our community.

    $65,659 spent$7,777 earned by the program
    9% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $760,043.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($59k) Expenses 100 ($57k) Net assets -13 ($-8588)2020 Revenue 280 ($165k) Expenses 155 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($68k)2021 Revenue 1055 ($622k) Expenses 498 ($283k) Net assets 595 ($405k)2022 Revenue 2837 ($1.7M) Expenses 1202 ($683k) Net assets 2051 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 6849 ($4.0M) Expenses 1851 ($1.1M) Net assets 6434 ($4.4M)2024 Revenue 3742 ($2.2M) Expenses 2600 ($1.5M) Net assets 7500 ($5.1M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (3742)Expenses (2600)Net assets (7500)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 $1.8M to $5.3M (+193%).

$5k
$70k
$407k
$1.8M
$5.3M
$5.7M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 66% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of ZORA'S HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’19
$77k
’20
$339k
’21
$988k
’22
$3.0M
’23
$727k
’24
1.6
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

Lauren Johnson

CEO

Board chair

Jennifer Walton

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

2021202220232024
Listed10889
Joined·+4+0+1
No longer listed·600
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 16 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.3M.

7 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 ZORA'S HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 27 of 28 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

ZORA'S HOUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

46% 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 ZORA'S HOUSE INC.

45%
largest funder
66%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 49% · 2021 50% · 2022 68% · 2023 23% — 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

38% of ZORA'S HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

ZORA'S HOUSE INC draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 6 states in all.

NY
IN
OH
PA
DE
TX

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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

ZORA'S HOUSE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin33% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)106% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding ZORA'S HOUSE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record.

Federal$1.0M
grants $1.0Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Small Business Administration$1.0M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ZORA'S HOUSE 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

51% of spending goes to programs.

Program 51%Management 39%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • The Purple Door Cafe LLC · disregarded

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Questions and answers

Who funds ZORA'S HOUSE INC?
ZORA'S HOUSE INC (Ohio) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,000,473 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($2,252,390). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ZORA'S HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $5,000,473 in grants to ZORA'S HOUSE INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ZORA'S HOUSE INC?
JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,252,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ZORA'S HOUSE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 28 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