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ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO

ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,478 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($185,805). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$33M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$192k
Net assets
$68M
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Arc Industries Inc of Franklin County Ohio does

Mission

Training and employment services for developmentally disabled adults.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Served 644 people with intellectual and developmental disabilites in adult day and vocational habilitation programs to increase problem solving skills, participate in community activities, including recreational and leisure, and develop and maintain a meaningful social life and and meet job expectations, education to maintain current skills, and assistance to increase social integration using natural supports and community resources.

    $9,338,332 spentof which $217,812 as grants$14,575,707 earned by the program
    52% of program spending
  2. Served 287 people with intellectual and developmental disabilites to allow individuals to work with a small group of other people while learning new skills to find employment in the community.

    $7,666,007 spentof which $178,806 as grants$9,585,758 earned by the program
    43% of program spending
  3. Served 418 people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in one-on-one services that gather information about a person's strengths, weakness, likes and dislikes and facilitates development of work skills, finding a job and supports once the person is in the job to retain that job.

    $831,003 spentof which $19,383 as grants$649,826 earned by the program
    5% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,835,342.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($11M) Expenses 100 ($8.9M) Net assets 100 ($15M)2018 Revenue 97 ($11M) Expenses 112 ($10.0M) Net assets 101 ($15M)2019 Revenue 385 ($43M) Expenses 443 ($40M) Net assets 146 ($22M)2020 Revenue 323 ($36M) Expenses 353 ($31M) Net assets 184 ($27M)2021 Revenue 302 ($34M) Expenses 234 ($21M) Net assets 276 ($41M)2022 Revenue 324 ($36M) Expenses 236 ($21M) Net assets 356 ($53M)2023 Revenue 230 ($26M) Expenses 250 ($22M) Net assets 397 ($59M)2024 Revenue 299 ($33M) Expenses 302 ($27M) Net assets 454 ($68M)
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Revenue (299)Expenses (302)Net assets (454)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $37M to $52M (+42%).

$15M
$18M
$26M
$37M
$52M
$59M
$65M
$74M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2022 22% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.2M
’17
$896k
’18
$3.4M
’19
$4.6M
’20
$13M
’21
$15M
’22
$3.4M
’23
$6.4M
’24
13
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

Robert Gaston

Chief executive officer

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed1110131315121922
Joined·+0+4+1+2+2+19+5
No longer listed·11105122
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $94k → $25k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
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total
funders
2
2
2
1
2
1

2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO’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

ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO.

97%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

Where its funders are

97% of ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state.

VA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $186k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO

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

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 20%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Arc Autism Services LLC · disregarded
  • Arc Group Employment Services · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO?
ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $192,478 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($185,805). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $192,478 in grants to ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $185,805 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARC INDUSTRIES INC OF FRANKLIN COUNTY OHIO 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.

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 3 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