Ohio · Nonprofit
APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE
APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,325,663 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($1,021,892). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $7.7M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $53M
What Appalachia Ohio Alliance does
Mission
Aoa is a land conservancy (trust) dedicated to the conservation and stewardship of our land and water as sustainable natural resources that are an asset and legacy for our community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
For 2023, aoa completed the negotiation and purchase of 9 properties, totaling 693 acres involving the clean ohio open space and/or ohio epa wrrsp grant fund programs. The 9 properties are in hocking, delaware, ross, morrow, champaign, union, and vinton counties. Conferred with approximately 30 landowners who were potential conservation easement,fee property and/or grant project participants. Worked throughout the calendar year to submit both clean ohio and wrrsp grant applications, which, if approved, will lead to additional properties being acquired for conservation purposes in 2024 and 2025. Aoa now has a total of 6,294 acres among 66 conservation easements and 8,361 acres conserved among 102 fee owned properties.
$504,495 spent96% of program spendingEducation: 1.aoa offered 19 field trips to show case areas preserved by aoa and provided email announcements to publicize these field trips. These events are free and open to the public. Approximately 635 persons were able to enjoy these outdoor events, both on land and water. In addition, the organization conducted over half a dozen invasive removal work days whereby volunteers learned how important it is to control destructive, non-native plants. 2.aoa's executive director attended the land trust alliance's national land trust conference in september 2023. 3.aoa staff participated in both regular statewide affiliated colt meetings and environmental professional network meetings sponsored by the ohio state university.
$14,372 spent3% of program spendingAoa partnered with the following organizations to share information and promote common goals- (note: not in alphabetical order): 1.natives in harmony 2.united plant savers 3.u.s. Fish & wildlife services 4.coalition of ohio land trusts 5.columbus audubon 6.columbus and franklin metro parks 7.crane hollow 8.ducks unlimited 9.fairfield soil and water conservation district 10.jackson township, franklin county 11.franklin soil and water conservation district 12.hocking county regional planning 13.hocking county commissioners 14.mid-ohio regional planning commission 15.national wild turkey federation 16.ohio department of natural resources, division of natural areas and preserves,and division of wildlife, division of mineral resources. 17.ohio state university cooperative extension service 18.the ohio state university school of environment and natural resources 19.ohio certified volunteer naturalist assn. 20.the ohio environmental council 21.pheasants forever 22.pickaway county commissioners 23.pickaway county park district 24.pickaway soil and water conservation district 25.pickaway county planning and development 26.pickaway county engineer 27.the nature conservancy 28.rural action…
$7,208 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $526,075.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $39M to $47M (+19%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 82% · 2018 36% · 2019 54% · 2020 34% · 2021 29% · 2022 1% · 2023 34% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $47k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE’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
APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 45% — 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
33% of APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
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
APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k 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
APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE?
- APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,325,663 to it, the largest being THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ($1,021,892). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,325,663 in grants to APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE?
- THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,021,892 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like APPALACHIA OHIO ALLIANCE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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