Ohio · Nonprofit
GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY
GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,440 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($154,242). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $389k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $275k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What German Village Society does
Mission
The German Village Society strives to maintain the neighborhood's reputation as a recognized example of historic communities in columbus and across the country. The gvs goals are as follows: (1) gvs leads preservation efforts and preservation education leadership for german village property owners, city of columbus and state of ohio affinity groups, and for visitors through experiential learning, heritage tourism and student educational field trips. (2) gvs serves as a connector organization with the community, working collaboratively with neighbors and governments to enhance the quality of life and experiences in the historic district, as well as to serve as an important destination for visitors to our city. (3) gvs provides stable leadership and governance to sustain and grow our mission, while preserving its 60-year legacy. (4) gvs provides a community hub, both physically in our building and virtually, by engaging, monitoring and coordinating community efforts across many organizat
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Members of the German Village Society serve as caretakers of a legacy for the neighborhood, and collectively support the mission of historic preservation and education. The primary role of the society is to advocate for the german village commission process and use of the german village guidelines on all exterior projects within the historically designated footprint. Our first audience for education is the property owners who must navigate the guidelines and commission process to properly preserve their historic property. The second audience for education is government and affinity groups who work with us on preservation best practices. The third audience for education is visitors to our historic district to that end, the German Village Society maintains a visitors center to welcome and orient visitors (as well as new residents). It is staffed entirely by volunteers, as are the society's guided field trip and group-tour experiences together, the visitors center and the guided tours serve more than 15,000 people each year. German Village Society has 17 elected board trustees. There are 17 committies that tackle everything from visioning for the future needs of the nonprofit to…
$171,724 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $171,724.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.6M to $1.5M (−5%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $53k → $26k.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY’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
GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 66% · 2019 100% · 2020 86% · 2021 86% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% — 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.
How long its funders stay
27% of GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 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
61% of GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY'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 $106k that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $169k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY
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
42% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY: 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 GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY?
- GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $275,440 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($154,242). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $275,440 in grants to GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $154,242 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GERMAN VILLAGE SOCIETY 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 18 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