Ohio · Nonprofit
OH TASTE
OH TASTE (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,579,450 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($515,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $5.9M
What Oh Taste does
Mission
Oh Taste provides resources to food entrepreneurs to establish teh groundwork for their success in teh local economy by establishing an incubator kitchen, financial literacy programs, and agricultural and workplacee development initiatives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Kitchen incubator -centered on the design, build-out, and full operation of the commercial kitchen and storage space. Includes advanced mentoring, and facilitation of business support-such as ingredient sourcing, marketing and distribution, access to capital services. It expands our target to appeal to a much broader community by offering market-rate rental opportunities to use the commercial kitchen.
$254,011 spent99% of program spendingSharpen the axe education - sharpen the axe (sta) program, covering a wide range of topics related to running a successful food business and will include the following objectives: o business development and strengthening, o entrepreneur development, o accelerator (pilot cohort) o phase 1 data collection and evaluation for program refinements
$1,906 spent1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,917.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.0M to $3.0M (+194%).
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: 2022 100% · 2023 98% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of OH TASTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Frances Mennnone
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $297k → $735k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 OH TASTE’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
OH TASTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% 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
54% 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 OH TASTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 93% · 2023 36% — 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.
Where its funders are
OH TASTE draws 53% 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. $544k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
OH TASTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,130 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like OH TASTE
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OH TASTE: 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 OH TASTE?
- OH TASTE (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,579,450 to it, the largest being DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY ($515,200). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OH TASTE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $1,579,450 in grants to OH TASTE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OH TASTE?
- DAYTON FOUNDATION DEPOSITORY is the largest funder on record, with $515,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OH TASTE 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 10 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