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NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION

NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,651 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($889,865). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$846k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$1.0M
Net assets
$1.4M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 58%
01What it does

What Newark Sport & Event Commission does

Mission

Develop and encourage interest in skating & other sports as inexpensive family recreation; maintain and increase all levels of participation in the three ice sports of hockey, figure skating & speed skating and pickleball in licking county; create opportunities for those wishing to learn these sports as well as those wishing to pursue skating beyond an introductory level; provide a suitable environment for the training & competition of talent skaters and hockey players; host community events & activities requiring clear span space to achieve their organizational objectives; enhance economic development in the city and surrounding marketplace through jobs, hosting of skating competitions, hockey and pickleball tournaments; promoting shows & events to enhance general tourism; have the arena become economically viable through the sale of ice time, goods, products & services; escrow funds for capital improvement and equipment replacement to assure the future operation of the facility.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Operation of ice arena to provide local youth and citizens opportunities to participate in ice activities and other community purposes.

    $769,885 spent$766,525 earned by the program
    99% of program spending
  2. Operation of 8 pickleball courts which provide youth, local citizens, and community organizations opportunities for open play, league play, and instructional use.

    $8,664 spent$7,038 earned by the program
    1% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $778,549.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($658k) Net assets 100 ($916k)2018 Revenue 57 ($655k) Expenses 98 ($647k) Net assets 101 ($924k)2019 Revenue 59 ($678k) Expenses 101 ($666k) Net assets 102 ($935k)2020 Revenue 45 ($516k) Expenses 88 ($579k) Net assets 95 ($872k)2021 Revenue 50 ($569k) Expenses 82 ($538k) Net assets 99 ($903k)2022 Revenue 69 ($783k) Expenses 97 ($638k) Net assets 114 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 120 ($1.4M) Expenses 128 ($844k) Net assets 172 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 70 ($796k) Expenses 138 ($907k) Net assets 159 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 74 ($846k) Expenses 142 ($932k) Net assets 150 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (74)Expenses (142)Net assets (150)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $1.7M (+40%).

$1.3M
$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.2M
$1.7M
$1.5M
$1.4M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 3% · 2019 6% · 2021 10% · 2022 10% · 2023 9% · 2024 1% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

7% of NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$482k
’17
$8k
’18
$12k
’19
−$64k
’20
$31k
’21
$145k
’22
$524k
’23
−$111k
’24
−$86k
’25
1.5
months of
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.

Board chair

Dean Locher

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed111212141315131213
Joined·+4+0+2+0+2+0+0+1
No longer listed·30010210
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $328k → $57k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 86% 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 NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION’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

NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

86% 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 NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION.

86%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 86% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

86% of NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION'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 $151k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $890k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION's revenue fell 26% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 1%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

69%

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 NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION?
NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,040,651 to it, the largest being LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC ($889,865). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 86% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,040,651 in grants to NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION?
LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $889,865 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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