Ohio · Nonprofit
OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION (Ohio) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,424,753 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($3,457,397). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $38M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $-9208682
What Ohio History Connection does
Mission
Identify, authenticate, collect, preserve, and interpret ohio's history.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Site operations/education - operate and maintain approximately 60 historic sites/museums; develop exhibits and provide interpretive services including lab demonstrations, workshops, school programs, conservation labs and special events.
$18,737,874 spentof which $941,383 as grants$2,068,510 earned by the program53% of program spendingCapital projects - plan, design and rehabilitate existing sites and exhibits as well as plan, design and construct new sites and exhibits.
$5,542,943 spentof which $278,475 as grants16% of program spendingHistoric preservation - administer the state historical preservation office under provisions of the national historical preservation act.
$4,096,975 spentof which $205,830 as grants12% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$6,997,903 spentof which $351,573 as grants$270,918 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $35,375,695.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2022 to 2023, from $8.6M to $5.7M (−33%).
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: 2019 68% · 2020 78% · 2021 80% · 2022 79% · 2023 80% · 2024 84% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Megan Wood
Executive director & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $524k → $1.3M.
12 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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: $23M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ohio History Connection Foundation); $21k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Ohio History Connection). These are real filings, and they are not money OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION raised.
From the IRS filings of OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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
OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 41% · 2019 21% · 2020 26% · 2021 27% · 2022 54% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
84% of OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 HISTORY CONNECTION's funding base is broadening — from 23 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 570 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ohio Historical Society Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: 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 HISTORY CONNECTION?
- OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION (Ohio) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,424,753 to it, the largest being GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL ($3,457,397). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $10,424,753 in grants to OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION?
- GREATER COLUMBUS ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $3,457,397 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 74 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