West Virginia · Nonprofit
OGLEBAY INSTITUTE
OGLEBAY INSTITUTE (West Virginia) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,390,641 to it, the largest being EW OGLEBAY MEMORIAL FUND ($646,953). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Oglebay Institute does
Mission
Oglebay Institute fosters appreciation, expression and discovery by engaging people of all ages and abilities through exceptional programming in performing and visual arts, dance, history, and nature.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Environmental education- provided educational and recreational programming on environmental awareness, appreciation, and preservation, including: cso-linked program delivery to nearly 3,900 students in public and private schools;public day and residential camps, workshops, lectures, special events, and other programming to nearly 2,400 participants; and 5,656 free admissions to an environmental education center; engaged an estimated 68 volunteers and served a total of 11,308 participants.
$379,996 spent$274,218 earned by the program17% of program spendingMuseums- provided programming in local and regional history and interpretation, including: operating a house museum and a glass museum with total attendance of nearly 16,000 people; lectures, workshops, classes, and special exhibitions and events; engaged as estimated 572 volunteers and served a total 19,871 particpants.
$299,452 spent$274,076 earned by the program13% of program spendingVisual and creative arts- provided educational and recreational programming in visual and creative arts, including: cso-linked program delivery to over 2,600 students in public and private schools; public art exhibitions showcasing local, regional, and national talent attended nearly 2,500 people; public day camps, classes, and special events; engaged an esitmated 26 volunteers and served a total of 10,763 participants.
$471,864 spent$181,436 earned by the program21% of program spendingPerforming arts and dance - provided programming in theatre / drama, cinema, music, and dance including: operating a community theatre and single-screen cinema with more than 5,600 public participants; live music and dance performances with more than 3,500 participants; cso-linked program delivery to more than 4,300 students in public and private schools; and delivering public classes in drama, theatre, dance, and music to nearly 4,000 participants; engaged an estimated 86 volunteers and served a total of 17,854 participants;
$1,147,068 spent$916,630 earned by the program50% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,298,380.
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 2020 to 2021, from $20M to $23M (+14%).
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 6% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 3% · 2021 14% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
38% of OGLEBAY INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Mike Boldrick
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $223k → $424k.
3 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.1M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money OGLEBAY INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of OGLEBAY INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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
OGLEBAY INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 23% · 2019 25% · 2020 32% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 22% — 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
67% of OGLEBAY INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
65% of OGLEBAY INSTITUTE's grant income comes from West Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k 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
OGLEBAY INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OGLEBAY INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $60k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$60k
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 OGLEBAY 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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
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 OGLEBAY 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 OGLEBAY INSTITUTE?
- OGLEBAY INSTITUTE (West Virginia) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,390,641 to it, the largest being EW OGLEBAY MEMORIAL FUND ($646,953). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OGLEBAY INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $3,390,641 in grants to OGLEBAY INSTITUTE, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OGLEBAY INSTITUTE?
- EW OGLEBAY MEMORIAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $646,953 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OGLEBAY INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing