Ohio · Nonprofit
BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC
BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,925 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($182,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $555k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $235k
- Net assets
- $797k
What Buckeye Trail Association Inc does
Mission
The buckeye trail association builds, maintains, preserves, and promotes the use of the 1400 + mile buckeye trail, ohio's longest hiking trail, for our citizens, communities and partners. Since 1959, we have provided outdoor recreation, volunteer opportunities, education, economic benefits, and access to the natural and cultural resources of ohio.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Build and maintain a hiking trail within ohio. (for the associations members as well as the general public [approximately 4 million people])
$428,958 spent94% of program spendingPromote hiking in the state of ohio through its programs, announcements and sales of merchandise and maps. (for the associations members as well as the general public [approximately 4 million people])
$4,671 spent1% of program spendingPublish and distribute a newsletter to membership and other interested persons. (1,400 members, donors, interested persons and legislators).
$21,057 spent5% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $454,686.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.0M to $784k (−23%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 16% · 2022 43% · 2023 63% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Andrew Bashaw
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $32k → $50k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC’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
BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 59% · 2019 93% · 2020 67% · 2021 84% · 2022 90% · 2023 96% — 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.
How long its funders stay
40% of BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
86% of BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC'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 $33k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202k 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
BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $103k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$103k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC?
- BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,925 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($182,700). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $234,925 in grants to BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $182,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUCKEYE TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC 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 12 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