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OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION

OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.5M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$12k
Net assets
$1.4M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Ohio Life Sciences Association does

Mission

Align the life sciences ecosystem in the state of ohio, building collaborative partnerships, and advocating for policies and funding that will help to accelerate life science priorities and drive sustainable economic growth.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Ohio life sciences hosts events that provide exceptional networking and partnership-building opportunities in addition to knowledgeable and influential industry speakers. Educational and signature event topics include diversity, patients, careers & leadership, regulatory affairs, government relations, and business growth.

  2. The current member discount program runs through 2027. Under the terms of the program agreement, the association designated a specific vendor as its sole provider of laboratory, life sciences, and safety products and will assist in encouraging association member organizations to order catalog products from the vendor. Total membership 257.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($29k) Expenses 100 ($105) Net assets 100 ($29k)2023 Revenue 4326 ($1.3M) Expenses 710045 ($746k) Net assets 1873 ($543k)2024 Revenue 5248 ($1.5M) Expenses 597674 ($628k) Net assets 4977 ($1.4M)
202220232024
Revenue (5248)Expenses (597674)Net assets (4977)Peer revenue range

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 $47k to $980k (+2001%).

$47k
$980k
$1.8M
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 32% · 2024 31%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

65% of OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’22
$514k
’23
$901k
’24
25
months of
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

Eddie Pauline

President and CEO

Board chair

Mike Triplett

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed5710
Joined·+2+3
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION’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.

Where its funders are

OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 1 state in all.

DC

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin59% · top quartile
Months of reserve25.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)624% · outside the comparable range

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION

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In Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Ohio Life Sciences Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION: 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 LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION?
OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $12,000 to it, the largest being BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION ($12,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $12,000 in grants to OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION?
BIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OHIO LIFE SCIENCES ASSOCIATION 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 1 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