Ohio · Nonprofit
OHIO ENERGY PROJECT
OHIO ENERGY PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $572,910 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($250,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $573k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Ohio Energy Project does
Mission
To increase energy knowledge and leadership skills through energy education materials and leadership training workshops.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Stem design challenge: oep provided an interactive program centering the engineering design process to solve an energy problem. The program spanned elementary and secondary classrooms. Participating teachers received the curricula, materials, and ongoing support to implement the challenge in their classrooms. 243* teachers and 15,504* students were impacted by this classroom program. *some teachers and students may have participated in both the elementary and secondary versions of the program depending on classroom needs.
$121,775 spent$133,678 earned by the program10% of program spendingE3 - energy, efficiency, enviroment: oep provided a comprehensive energy sustainability program to classrooms across the state. Participating teachers received the training, curricula, materials, and ongoing instructional support they needed to implement the program successfully in their classrooms. Participating students received curricula and energy conservation kits to teach their peers, families, and communities how to be energy stewards in their everyday life. 48 teachers and 2,299 students were impacted by this classroom program.
$154,355 spent$144,596 earned by the program13% of program spendingE3 smart: oep provided an energy efficiency program to select ohio classrooms. Participating teachers received the training, curricula, materials, and ongoing instructional support they needed to implement the program successfully in their classrooms. Participating students received curricula and energy efficiency kits to save their families energy and money on their home utility bills. 399 teachers and 25,482 students were impacted by this classroom program.
$937,647 spent$1,029,311 earned by the program77% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,213,777.
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 2019 to 2020, from $730k to $1.1M (+53%).
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.
11% of OHIO ENERGY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Michael Goldman
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $14k → $235k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 OHIO ENERGY PROJECT’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
OHIO ENERGY PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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: 2020 100% · 2021 66% · 2022 91% · 2023 42% — 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
60% of OHIO ENERGY PROJECT's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 56% 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
OHIO ENERGY PROJECT draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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
OHIO ENERGY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OHIO ENERGY PROJECT
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 OHIO ENERGY PROJECT: 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 OHIO ENERGY PROJECT?
- OHIO ENERGY PROJECT (Ohio) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $572,910 to it, the largest being American Electric Power Foundation ($250,300). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OHIO ENERGY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $572,910 in grants to OHIO ENERGY PROJECT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO ENERGY PROJECT?
- American Electric Power Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $250,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO ENERGY PROJECT 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 9 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