Ohio · Nonprofit
OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM
OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,492 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $384k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $464k
- Net assets
- $596k
What Over-The-Rhine Museum does
Mission
The Over-The-Rhine Museum inspires understanding and respect for the people who have created and lived in cincinnati's historic over-the-rhine neighborhood by working with community members and visitors to uncover, present and preserve their stories in an immersive experience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public programs - otrm offers a variety of outstanding and entertaining educational programs highlighting over-the-rhine's rich history. Walking the story tour program offers four different 2-hour walking tours throughout cincinnati's historic over-the-rhine neighborhood, each offering fascinating and educational experiences lead by our knowledgable and and passionate guides. Three acts in over-the-rhine, a quarterly lecture series featuring three guest story-tellers who discuss research or first-hand accounts to give participants a deeper understanding of over-the-rhine and the evolving fabric of the neighborhood. Storefront exhibition, personal stories from the residents of 3 west mcmicken avenue in the newly restored windows of the museum building. Oral history project records the histories of people who have lived, worked, worshipped and played in over-the-rhine. These stories of the neighborhood's past give us rich perspective on the breadth and depth of those who have passed through this community.
$17,073 spent$3,843 earned by the program29% of program spendingMuseum development - in 2020, otrm purchased a former tenement building at 3 west mcmicken avenue in cincinnati and hired a full-time director of museum administration. Since then, otrm has done extensive research on the building, location and history toward accurate restoration and begun our renovation with the storefront windows. In 2022, otrm used aha, neh and haile foundation funds to hire part-time staff and to conduct workshops on restoration and museum planning. As we collect and explore the stories of the many people who called this place home, we continue to raise funds for restoration and to establish an operating museum and cultural center that will be open to the public.
$41,751 spent71% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,824.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $337k to $606k (+80%).
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: 2024 19% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Anne Delano Steinert
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $3k → $80k.
2 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM’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
OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
30% 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 OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 55% · 2020 40% · 2021 38% · 2022 39% · 2023 45% — 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
38% of OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
89% of OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $75k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM
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
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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 OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM: 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 OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM?
- OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM (Ohio) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $464,492 to it, the largest being CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION ($100,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $464,492 in grants to OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM?
- CAROL ANN AND RALPH V HAILE JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 29 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