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RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC
RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,054 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($75,999). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $317k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $52k
What Rickenbacker-Woods Technology Museum and Historical Park Inc does
Mission
To operate da technology museum, historical park, education center and auxiliary facilities to promote an understanding of technology and science as a means of innovation, problem solving adn social progress.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Creators, Originators, and Innovators of Tomorrow Workforce Initiative (COITWI): The COITWI program operates as a six-month workforce development and violence prevention initiative for high school students in Columbus. Through paid internships, participants engage in hands-on projects that build leadership, communication, and critical thinking skills while promoting positive alternatives to youth violence. Activities include designing community gardens, producing public art such as murals and quilts, organizing civic events, and leading field trips to cultural, educational, and historic institutions across Ohio. By blending STEAM-based learning with community engagement, COITWI provides students with real-world experiences that enhance their mental capacity, address insecurities, and prepare them for higher education and the workforce, while also generating measurable cost savings to the community by reducing risks associated with youth incarceration. Summer Adventure Camp: The Rickenbacker Woods Foundation's Summer Adventure Camp serves elementary and middle school youth with a focus on STEAM exploration, literacy, and social-emotional learning. The camp operates daily over the…
$286,389 spent$316,908 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $286,389.
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.
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 $200k to $34k (−83%).
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: 2022 84% · 2023 91% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $63k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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 RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC’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
RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — 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
81% of RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $18k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k 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.
Organizations like RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC?
- RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC (Ohio) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,054 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($75,999). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $94,054 in grants to RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,999 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RICKENBACKER-WOODS TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL PARK INC 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 5 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