Ohio · Nonprofit
OCLC INC
OCLC INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,922,973 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,527,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $273M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $379M
What Oclc Inc does
Mission
Oclc's mission centers on using technology and data to promote access to knowledge. We connect individuals, organizations, libraries, and communities to a vast array of information resources, enabling them to explore, learn, (continued on schedule o)and transform. Our network provides access to information on a global scale to enhance and share the collective knowledge of humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Oclc is a nonprofit global library organization providing shared technology services, original research, and community programs so that libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation. Through oclc, member libraries cooperatively produce and maintain worldcat, the most comprehensive global network of data about library collections and services. Libraries gain efficiencies through oclc's worldshare, a complete set of library management applications and services built on an open, cloud-based platform. It is through collaboration and sharing of the world's collected knowledge that libraries can help people find answers they need to solve problems. (continued on schedule o)in fy25, oclc helped libraries around the globe respond to technological, fiscal, and social changes. We responded to the emergence of the artificial intelligence revolution by responsibly deploying ai to deliver measurable improvement to library services. We answered the call of libraries facing financial uncertainty by continuing to create software specifically designed to make libraries more efficient. We deepened our partnerships with the library community through sales, product, and research…
$241,323,815 spentof which $29,750 as grants$259,983,724 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $241,323,815.
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 2024 to 2025, from $486M to $538M (+11%).
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 0% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of OCLC INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $19k.
From the IRS filings of OCLC 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
OCLC INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 94% · 2021 51% · 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
OCLC INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
OCLC INC is better cushioned than half of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding OCLC INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.3M on record — $32.2M federal, $2.1M state.
- Department of Defense$10.2M
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$5.5M
- Department of Commerce$3.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.3M
- Department of Agriculture$2.0M
- Department of the Interior$1.5M
- DE$730k
- CT$665k
- VT$333k
- OK$315k
- NJ$37k
- OR$12k
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 OCLC INC
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- Oclc Emea Bv · disregarded
- Oclc Bv · disregarded
- Oclc Gmbh · disregarded
- Oclc (Uk) Limited · disregarded
- Oclc Srl · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OCLC INC: 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 OCLC INC?
- OCLC INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,922,973 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($3,527,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OCLC INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $3,922,973 in grants to OCLC INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OCLC INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,527,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OCLC 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.
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 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