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Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc

Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,834 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($154,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$63k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$264k
Net assets
$230k
4/6 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc does

Mission

Historic preservation of the Ohio Governor's Residence and Heritage Gardens.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Preservation and maintenance of the Ohio Governor's Residence, surrounding grounds, and unique gardens by educating and inspiring visitors about the horticultural, geologic, artistic, industrial, and political history of Ohio.

    $61,374 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,374.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($26k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($351k)2021 Revenue 464 ($122k) Expenses 229 ($63k) Net assets 124 ($435k)2022 Revenue 128 ($34k) Expenses 280 ($77k) Net assets 103 ($361k)2023 Revenue 116 ($31k) Expenses 395 ($108k) Net assets 82 ($289k)2024 Revenue 152 ($40k) Expenses 310 ($85k) Net assets 74 ($260k)2025 Revenue 237 ($63k) Expenses 393 ($108k) Net assets 65 ($230k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (237)Expenses (393)Net assets (65)Peer revenue range

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 $351k to $435k (+24%).

$351k
$435k
$365k
$294k
$272k
$230k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

91% of Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’20
$60k
’21
−$43k
’22
−$78k
’23
−$45k
’24
−$45k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $73k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden 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

Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

79% 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 Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc.

58%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 73% · 2023 69% — 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.

Where its funders are

58% of Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden 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 $110k that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Ohio funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $154k 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

Against its field

Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−72% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

90%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc?
Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $263,834 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($154,300). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $263,834 in grants to Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden Inc?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $154,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Friends of the Ohio Governor's Residence & Heritage Garden 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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