Ohio · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,309,723 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($8,234,783). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.6M
- Funders on record
- 115
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Special Olympics Ohio Inc does
Mission
Organization that provides year-round sports training and athletic competition programs in a variety of olympic-type sports for children and adults in ohio with intellectual disabilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
2025 grass roots local sports programs the state of ohio has 101 community based special olympics programs. Over 14,000 athletes participate in 750 sports programs throughout the year, creating almost 400,000 experiences. The programs have weekly practices and periodic competitions against other programs that culminate to the regional and state level. The current sports programs offered include alpine skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, basketball skills, basketball teams, aquatics, competitive cheer, softball skills, softball teams, flag football, golf, equestrian, track & field, bocce, bowling, gymnastics, powerlifting, soccer, tennis and volleyball.
$785,776 spent16% of program spending2025 state and regional sponsored competitions over 10,000 special olympics athletes and unified partners participated in the multi-day events for track and field, soccer, power lifting, volleyball, gymnastics, bocce, bowling, skiing, basketball, swimming, cheer, golf, flag football and softball. These events took place all over ohio. There are four regions throughout ohio with regional events in most of the sports listed above.
$2,777,634 spent56% of program spending2025 unified champion schools/healthy athlete activities - in 2025, special olympics ohio recruited 65 new schools from across the state, bringing our total to 265 (across 82 school districts). Athletes participated in 35,812 unified sports experiences. In the 2025 school year, special olympics ohio was able to develop athletes' skills and offer competitive play in full seasons of flag football, soccer, basketball, cheer, track and field, and cornhole, including representation at the state flag football tournament, national unified basketball collegiate tournament, usa games, and the national unified bowling championships. The unified champion schools inclusion movement created innovative and impactful programming for students with and without disabilities, along with their families and communities. In addition, 4,305 special olympics athletes received medical screenings for sight, hearing, dental and overall fitness as part of special olympics ohio's healthy athletes initiative.
$1,436,180 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,999,590.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $10M to $12M (+16%).
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: 2017 7% · 2018 9% · 2019 20% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% · 2024 26% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Jessica Stewart
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Phil Weaver
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.9M.
18 of 115 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 115 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 53% · 2019 68% · 2020 81% · 2021 80% · 2022 75% · 2023 73% — 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
42% of SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO 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
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC (Ohio) receives grants from 115 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,309,723 to it, the largest being SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ($8,234,783). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC have?
- IRS filings report 115 organizations giving $12,309,723 in grants to SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC?
- SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC is the largest funder on record, with $8,234,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 115 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