Ohio · Nonprofit
Equality Ohio
Equality Ohio (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,825 to it, the largest being OHIO VOICE ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $151k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Equality Ohio does
Mission
Equality Ohio identifies and transforms systems and institutions so LGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality. We envision an Ohio where peope are welcome,
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
DIRECT LOBBYING: The purpose of this program is to advocate directly topolicymakers regarding legislation that transforms systems and institutions soLGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality.
$18,020 spent92% of program spendingLEGISTLATIVE ACTIVITY/NON-DIRECT LOBBYING: The purpose of this program is to develop strategy and gain support for legislation that furthers Equality Ohiosvision of an Ohio where people are welcome, affirmed, and flourishing. This includes time spent on coalition planning and relationship buildingrelated to specific pieces of legistlation, as well as working with constituents directly to help them understand and engage with the legistlation process so that LGBTQ+ Ohioas can access full legal and lived equality.
$783 spent4% of program spendingPOLITICAL ACTIVITIES: The purpose of this program is to endorse and otherwise supportcandidates and ballot initiatives that promote LGBTQ+ equality and other issuesthat directly impact LGBTQ+ Ohioans.
$880 spent4% of program spending501(C)(4) BOARD/ADMIN: The purpose of this program is to support the Equality Ohio Board, administration of our legistlative programmatic work, and to otherwise ensure that our work to achieve legal and lived equality for LGBTQ+ Ohioans manifests thoughtfully, efficiently, strategically, and effectively.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $19,683.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $124k to $191k (+54%).
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.
100% of Equality Ohio’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Alana Jochum
Executive Director
Board chair
Amanda Everitt
Chair
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $200 → $71k.
From the IRS filings of Equality 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
Equality Ohio has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
68% 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 Equality Ohio.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 73% · 2022 76% · 2023 42% — 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
25% of Equality Ohio's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of Equality Ohio's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Equality Ohio has grown faster than half of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Equality 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Equality Ohio: 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 Equality Ohio?
- Equality Ohio (Ohio) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,825 to it, the largest being OHIO VOICE ($65,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Equality Ohio have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $209,825 in grants to Equality Ohio, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Equality Ohio?
- OHIO VOICE is the largest funder on record, with $65,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Equality 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.
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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 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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