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EMBRACING FUTURES INC

EIN 34-6543299 AKRON, OH

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Revenue 2023
$362,810
Expenses 2023
$318,307

Program services were 81.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E320
Classification
1000
Street
50 SOUTH MAIN STREET

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF NEEDY AND UNDERPRIVILEGED CHILDREN IN SUMMIT, STARK, PORTAGE, MEDINA AND WAYNE COUNTIES BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR ORTHODONTIC AND OTHER DENTAL CARE AND OFFERING ORAL HEALTH EDUCATION FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

EMBRACING FUTURES, INC. PROVIDES ORTHODONTIC BRACES TO CHILDREN WITH SEVERE ORTHODONTIC PROBLEMS, WHO ARE GROWING UP IN AN IMPOVERISHED HOUSEHOLD AND HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN BY MEDICAID OR OTHER GOVERNMENT FUNDED PROGRAMS.

  • THE ORTHODONTIC CARE PROGRAM IS OUR CORE PROGRAM. THIS UNIQUE PROGRAM IS A REACTIVE PROCESS THAT PROVIDES ORTHODONTIC CARE FOR CHILDREN GROWING UP IN IMPOVERISHED HOUSEHOLDS WHO ARE SUFFERING FROM SEVERE ORTHODONTIC PROBLEMS AND HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN BY MEDICAID OR OTHER GOVERNMENT FUNDED PROGRAMS. WORKING WITH COMMUNITY PARTNERS, WE FIRST IDENTIFY A CHILD, MEET WITH THE FAMILY TO VERIFY THE FINANCIAL NEED, PROVIDE TWO ORTHODONTIC EXAMS TO VALIDATE THE MEDICAL NEED, AND BRING OUR FINDINGS TO OUR BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR A FINAL DECISION. WITH BOARD APPROVAL, WE FINANCE THE COSTS DIRECTLY WITH AN ORTHODONTIST UNTIL TREATMENT IS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED. THE PROCESS CONCLUDES THROUGH AN EXIT INTERVIEW WITH THE FAMILY. IN THE PAST TEN YEARS WE HAVE HELPED OVER 400 CHILDREN. WE RECOGNIZE A CHILD WHO IS SELF-CONSCIOUS ABOUT HIS OR HER TEETH MAY SHY AWAY FROM PARTICIPATING IN CLASS OR OTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. CHILDREN WHO RECEIVE ORTHODONTIC TREATMENT WILL CERTAINLY BE HEALTHIER INDIVIDUALS. THEY MAY ALSO EXPERIENCE IMPROVED SELF ESTEEM AND CONFIDENCE. THIS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR BECOMING MORE PRODUCTIVE INDIVIDUALS AS THEY MOVE FROM SCHOOL INTO THEIR ADULT LIFE. DONNA SKODA, SUMMIT COUNTY PUBLIC HEALTH COMMISSIONER, STATED THE FOLLOWING: IT'S CLEAR THAT POOR ORAL HEALTH, UNTREATED ORAL DISEASES AND SEVERE ORTHODONTIC PROBLEMS HAVE A CONSIDERABLE IMPACT ON QUALITY OF LIFE, INCLUDING LOSS OF SELF-ESTEEM, POOR PERFORMANCE AT SCHOOL AND DECREASED ECONOMIC PRODUCTIVITY. YET ACCESS TO DENTAL SERVICES, INCLUDING ORTHODONTIC CARE, REMAINS THE GREATEST UNMET HEALTHCARE NEED IN SUMMIT COUNTY. MAINTAINING THE HEALTH OF YOUR TEETH AND MOUTH IS NOT MERELY A COSMETIC ACTIVITY, BUT RATHER A CRITICAL PART IN A COMPLETE HEALTHCARE PLAN AND A SMART INVESTMENT IN PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL HEALTH...ESPECIALLY FOR CHILDREN. IN 2023, 45 CHILDREN WERE APPROVED FOR TREATMENT AND 94 TOTAL CHILDREN RECEIVED TREATMENT.

    Expenses $260,092 · Grants $127,290 · Revenue $950

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mark W Fairhurst

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $83,709
    From this org
    $81,271
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $2,438
    Hours/week
    40
  • Bill Braden

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steven Cox

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Gerstenmaier DDS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Jennifer Denee

    TRUSTEE, RES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Todd Dietrich

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Genet

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Douglas Gormley

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Marlene Heineman

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Carl Dietrich Jr

    TRUSTEE, RES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Dale Highsmith Jr

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Stephanie Kormanec

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Becky McAdams

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Mark Mroczynski

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Mulhern

    TRUSTEE, RES

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Amanda Sainato

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $362,810
    Expenses
    $318,307
    Contributions
    $271,055
    Grants paid
    $127,290
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $610,349
    Expenses
    $274,186
    Contributions
    $273,077
    Grants paid
    $110,827

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $335,745
    Expenses
    $266,739
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,423,665
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $377,385
    Expenses
    $319,183
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,142,001
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $388,799
    Expenses
    $319,949
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,875,943
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $427,698
    Expenses
    $296,981
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,622,363
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $368,316
    Expenses
    $259,567
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,779,738
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $278,298
    Expenses
    $291,519
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,569,329
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $359,860
    Expenses
    $273,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,498,601
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $354,014
    Expenses
    $281,885
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,534,517

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.