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TOM TOD IDEAS INC

EIN 46-0732616 CANTON, OH

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Revenue 2024
$755,317
Expenses 2024
$655,588

Program services were 78.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
439 MARKET AVE N

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).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TomTod Ideas empowers middle schoolers to explore and launch ideas that put empathy and imagination into action that help communities thrive. We do this through direct programming, project-based mentoring, and in-and-out of school learning adventures that celebrate middle schoolers for their inspiring attributes. We also equip other youth-serving organizations with training, curriculum, and best practices to walk alongside middle schoolers in this critical stage of development.

  • Camps: TomTod's summer day camps cultivate fun, curiosity, and creativity, inviting middle schoolers to explore and create ideas by immersing them in their community and interests. Using a design-thinking-infused approach, campers are empowered to explore their community, collaborate with adult leaders, imaginatively problem-solve with their friends, and prototype ideas with TomTod's staff. All TomTod camps connect middle schoolers deeply with their community by hosting camps in collaborative spaces with partnering organizations (such as park systems, universities, art galleries, and business owners). During TomTod camps, middle schoolers develop friendships, have fun, and make memories while growing essential skills. Every TomTod camp ends with a celebration of the campers' discoveries and creations with community members, friends, and families.

    Expenses $276,308 · Revenue $159,190

  • Classes: TomTod's school-based classes guide students through TomTod's community-centered design thinking process to explore and create ideas for their community. Through twelve weekly sessions offered over the course of a school semester, TomTod staff and partnering educators lead students through community projects tailored to each community that complement middle school learning standards. TomTod's classes center on student voice and focus on growing students' critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creative problem-solving skills. The goal of each TomTod class is for middle schoolers to use their newly acquired community knowledge and skills to formulate ideas that serve others. TomTod classes take the best of project-based, problem-based, place-based, and passion-based learning in ways that unlock middle schoolers' innate creativity and altruism.

    Expenses $209,435 · Revenue $128,119

  • Collabs: Outside of direct service, TomTod collaborates to provide curriculum, professional development, training, and more. Community Idea Quests connect our in-house-developed curriculum to specific communities, empowering partners to bring TomTod programming into their own schools with support from TomTod staff. These collaborative programs provide partners with a contextualized, developmentally-aligned curriculum as well as technical support through professional development, team training, and program monitoring and evaluation. TomTod also offers on-demand training for educators, youth development professionals, and community partners, sharing expertise in early adolescence best practices, covering a variety of topics including curriculum development, program design, pedagogical approaches, and continuous improvement models. Partners have included school districts, educational service centers, youth development organizations, out-of-school-time collaboratives, libraries, and more.

    Expenses $30,809 · Revenue $90,700

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Joel Daniel Harris

    Executive Director/Board Member

    Total calculated
    $69,649
    From this org
    $68,128
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $1,521
    Hours/week
    40

  • Matt Sutter

    Board President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Stephon Brown

    Board Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rod Moore

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Chad Sinkovich

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Keith Arner

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • John Abbott

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Teresa Hogan

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Susan Marazza

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Latasha Ellis

    Board Member

    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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $755,317
    Expenses
    $655,588
    Contributions
    $378,540
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $658,834
    Expenses
    $708,889
    Contributions
    $294,272
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $607,606
    Expenses
    $518,258
    Contributions
    $360,705
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $441,075
    Expenses
    $362,764
    Assets (EOY)
    $179,397

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $328,483
    Expenses
    $313,562
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,858

  • 2019 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $179,148
    Expenses
    $150,433
    Assets (EOY)
    $80,585

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $141,112
    Expenses
    $140,676
    Assets (EOY)
    $50,328

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $129,990
    Expenses
    $166,083
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,492

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2012

Tax period
1 August 2012 to 31 December 2012
Principal officer
Joel D Harris
Mailing address
802 - 25TH STREET N WCANTON OH 447093717

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 13 October 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 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.