Ohio · Nonprofit
IDEAS INSTITUTE
IDEAS INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $230,488 to it, the largest being ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ($230,488). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $230k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Ideas Institute does
Mission
To engage in and disseminate research on the therapeutic influences of the environment- organizational and social as well as physical, on older adults and individuals living with dementia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Grant (total grant $99,282 paid in 2023 and January 2024) from the Alzheimer's Association to further develop the Environment Audit Scoring Evaluation (EASE) to assess the person centered environmental characteristics of long-term care residential care settings. IDEAS Institute has been working on the EASE for several years (see 4b below) and expects this work will continue for at least 5 more years. The ultimate goal is to have the EASE be both valid and reliable for use in research projects about the design of long-term care settings, and for use as a design tool when renovating and designed new care settings. The EASE will ultimately be made available for free, along with an extensive training manual and other training resources. Aspects of this project (both 4a and 4b) have been published in Innovation in Aging journal (2022), in Frontiers (2024) and at several national conferences in 2023 and 2024. No grant revenues were received in 2025, but $15,378 was paid out in expenses related to the grant.
$15,378 spent95% of program spendingFacilities Guidelines Institute is a non-profit that writes and promulgates building codes for health care settings. The code books are used by virtually all architectural and engineering practices in the US that do healthcare work, and the codes benefit the health, safety and welfare of all residents, staff and visitors to this setting (there are roughly 3 million residents in nursing homes and assisted living). Dr Calkins is a member of the Healthcare Guidelines Residential Care Task Force, which has one in-person meeting per year and bi-weekly zoom meetings. Over 75 hours of Dr Calkins time was donated to this effort. Expenses related to the in-person meeting.
$540 spentof which $540 as grants3% of program spendingThe Alzheimer's Association run an annual Summer Institute for research professionals who are new to the study of Alzheimer's Disease. Dr Calkins has been a teacher in this program since 2021. Responsibilities include review applications to the program, attending the training in August, delivering environmental research related content, and participating in both on-site and follow-up mentoring. Over 40 hours of Dr. Calkins time is donate to this effort. Travel expenses are reimbursed. There is a direct benefit to the new researchers who are being trained and coached, and an indirect benefit to everyone involved in the research they will be carrying out over their careers.
$232 spentof which $232 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $16,150.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $63k to $176k (+180%).
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 28% · 2024 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
28% of IDEAS INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (92% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Jennifer Brush
Executive Director
Board chair
Margaret Calkins
Board Chair and Senior Researcher
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of IDEAS INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
IDEAS INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.
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
IDEAS INSTITUTE's revenue fell 94% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,195 environment nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like IDEAS INSTITUTE
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.
Public support
83%
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 IDEAS INSTITUTE: 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 IDEAS INSTITUTE?
- IDEAS INSTITUTE (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $230,488 to it, the largest being ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ($230,488). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IDEAS INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $230,488 in grants to IDEAS INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of IDEAS INSTITUTE?
- ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $230,488 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IDEAS INSTITUTE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 1 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