Ohio · Nonprofit
ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING
ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,037 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Athens Hocking County Recycling does
Mission
Recycling-the collection, processing and remanufacturing of recyclable materials benefits our immediate customers and the nation in general in two ways: it reduces the amount of materials deposited in local landfills and also helps reduce the drain on our natural resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
Effective september 2024, the organization entered into a transfer agreement of assets, contracts and services of employees from the organization to southeast ohio recycling termination council of government (the council). Assets and ongoing contracts of the organization were transferred to the council, and the council took over responsibility for all employees of the organization to fulfill ongoing contractual obligations of the contracts assigned to the council and to enable the council to offer additional services to its members in pursuit of its stated purpose.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
Curbside collection of recyclables - glass, aluminum, newspapers, etc. Processing and consolidation of recyclables for shipment to markets for remanufacturing. Maintain drop-off sites for recyclables. Approximately 10,000 people benefit from this program.
$4,287,853 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,287,853.
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 2023 to 2024, from $6.5M to $2.3M (−64%).
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: 2023 2% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Crissa Cummings
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $17.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING’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
ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $100k 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
ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING?
- ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,037 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $100,037 in grants to ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING?
- JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ATHENS HOCKING COUNTY RECYCLING 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 2 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