Ohio · Nonprofit
LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,172,962 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($310,302). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $564k
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Lorain Historical Society does
Mission
Lorain Historical Societys mission is to engage members of the community and our visitors in our shared and diverse history through preservation, education, and collaboration
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization collects artifacts on the history of lorain, has 4,000 paper files on events and people in lorain and has a collection of over 7,000 historical photographs. The organization operates the moore house as a collections facility with two floors being used for collections and storage, and the first floor being used for office and program spaces. The organization owns and operates the carnegie center as its primary exhibit space and administrative offices. Not only does the Lorain Historical Society hold events at both locations for residents of the community and visitors to the city, but it also has regular programs at various locations throughout the city over the course of the year.
$540,892 spent$25,819 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $540,892.
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.
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 $3.1M to $2.8M (−10%).
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: 2018 22% · 2021 17% · 2022 5% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Barb Piscopo
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $78k → $275k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 LORAIN HISTORICAL 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
LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 26% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 42% · 2019 35% · 2020 42% · 2021 44% · 2022 42% · 2023 28% — 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
57% of LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
97% of LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $246k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$25k
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 LORAIN HISTORICAL 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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 LORAIN HISTORICAL 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 LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,172,962 to it, the largest being THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION ($310,302). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,172,962 in grants to LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LORAIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- THE NORD FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $310,302 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LORAIN HISTORICAL 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 22 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