Ohio · Nonprofit
WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,129 to it, the largest being OHIO HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($41,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $486k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $41k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Wood County Historical Society does
Mission
The Wood County Historical Society is a community organization that makes connections between our past, present and future by capturing stories and cultivating memories of wood county, ohio and the county home.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of 27,000 sq. Ft. Museum, herb garden, nature trails and numerous points of outdoor interest, on a 50-acre site owned by wood county. For comfort and convenience: public charity in ohio by way of the poor farm" opened in 2019. The exhibit won four awards and has been the basis for five published articles. This exhibit depicts the history of ohio's poor farm system and includes modern photographs by jeffery hall of all 88 ohio county poor farm sites. "allure & illusion: a rose-colored romance." showcasing 40+ beautiful wedding dresses once worn at past wood county weddings, this exhibit presents the foundation of marriage culture and how modern ideology is changing what it means to get married and strive for the american dream. It also features frank kalan harlequin romance cover art from bowling green state university browne popular culture library. "the mary & carl bach story" opened in october 2020. This exhibit contextualizes the murder of mary bach, the trial and execution of carl bach, and confronts the folklore surrounding the human remains that are part of the wchs collection. "a clean bill of health: societal response to disease" located inside the pest house.…
$367,217 spent$124,512 earned by the program100% of program spendingPublication of official newsletter, "the black swamp chanticleer" produced quarterly in print and online. 1,624 chanticleer newsletters were mailed; e-newsletter opens 14,908. 8,284 facebook likes, 1,484 instagram followers. Museum information is available on social media, website, and e-newsletter.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $367,217.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+40%).
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 57% · 2018 36% · 2019 59% · 2020 61% · 2021 49% · 2022 57% · 2023 50% · 2024 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $26.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY’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
WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 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 WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $41,129 to it, the largest being OHIO HUMANITIES COUNCIL ($41,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $41,129 in grants to WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- OHIO HUMANITIES COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 3 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