Ohio · Nonprofit
Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation
Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,500 to it, the largest being Innovation Ohio Education Fund ($465,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $363k
What Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation does
Mission
To strengthen Ohios cities and metropolitan regions through collaboration, communication, improved advocacy and stronger partnerships with policy makers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Mayors Alliance Foundation (OMAF) continued its efforts to bring Ohios mayors together to share best practices and promote innovative local policy solutions. OMAF also continued its efforts to work with Ohio Mayors Alliance to protect the fiscal health of our cities, preserve home rule, and promote bipartisanship and collaboration. We have maintained our partnership with Power a Clean Future Ohio to help cities become more sustainable and to promote clean energy. We also continued our work with our public safety partners to research statewide crime data and policy solutions to support safer cities.
$202,878 spentof which $20,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $202,878.
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 2022 to 2023, from $122k to $293k (+140%).
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.
99% of Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Keary McCarthy
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $205k → $309k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $58k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Ohio Mayors Alliance). These are real filings, and they are not money Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation’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 Mayors Alliance Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
63% 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 Mayors Alliance Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 90% · 2023 41% — 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
57% of Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $130k 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
Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Ohio Mayors Alliance · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation: 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 Mayors Alliance Foundation?
- Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,368,500 to it, the largest being Innovation Ohio Education Fund ($465,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,368,500 in grants to Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation?
- Innovation Ohio Education Fund is the largest funder on record, with $465,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ohio Mayors Alliance Foundation 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 11 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