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THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,009 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($70,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $421k
What The Ohio Academy of Science does
Mission
The organization's mission is to promote interest in science. This is done through encouraging and assuring the discovery, understanding, dissemination and practice of education, science, mathematics, engineering, technology, or their applications through continuing professional development and training.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization's mission is to promote interest in science. This is done through encouraging and assuring the discovery, understanding, dissemination and practice of education, science, mathematics, engineering, technology, or their applications through continuing professional development and training.
$753,956 spentof which $168,867 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $753,956.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.2M to $2.3M (+92%).
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 12% · 2018 17% · 2019 38% · 2020 62% · 2021 73% · 2022 81% · 2023 71% · 2024 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $49k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE’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
THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 99% · 2022 36% · 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.
How long its funders stay
57% of THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $129k 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
THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
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
78% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE: 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 THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE?
- THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (Ohio) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $290,009 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($70,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $290,009 in grants to THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OHIO ACADEMY OF SCIENCE 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 10 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