Ohio · Nonprofit
WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,111 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($143,743). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $180k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $228k
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Worthington Historical Society Inc does
Mission
The Worthington Historical Society (WHS) creates experiences that inspire and promote public interest in Worthington's history. To preserve the city's legacy for future generations, the Society maintains historic properties, interprets collections, and offers educational opportunities. Founded in 1955, WHS celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. It maintains three properties: the Orange Johnson House, the Old Rectory (home to the Doll Museum, offices, Shop, and collections), and the Jeffers Mound. The WHS collects and maintains items directly tied to Worthington's history providing a repository for the community's collective history and materials; objects, photographs, archives, and first person accounts passed down through many mediums that together form a rich, multi-dimensional picture of the city's past. These collections are maintained for the community's benefit.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation and maintenance of three historical properties and collections. Both the Orange Johnson House (High St.) and Old Rectory (New England Ave.) are open to the public. The Orange Johnson House was built in 1811 and the Old Rectory was built in 1845. Both buildings have a long history of service to the City of Worthington. The H.P. Jeffers Mound is considered to be the oldest manmade structure in Worthington, dating back to the time frame 100 B.C. to 400 A.D constructed by people of the Hopewell culture. All three properties are on the National Register of Historic Places. Each of the three properties require significant financial investment to maintain and preserve for future generations.
$49,413 spent$893 earned by the program87% of program spendingEducation about Worthington history, participation in Worthington Market Day activities, third grade school week where students from all of the Worthington elementary schools are given lessons on city history on the Historic Worthington Village Green and at the Orange Johnson House. Frequent open houses at the Orange Johnson House that illustrate pioneer lifestyles. Several educational programs throughout the year with walking tours, bus tours, and ghost tours about Worthington history including buildings, events and people who lived in Worthington.
$7,525 spent$5,079 earned by the program13% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $56,938.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $2.3M to $2.5M (+9%).
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: 2021 30% · 2022 18% · 2023 33% · 2024 30% · 2025 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Katherine LaLonde
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $19k → $35k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% 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 WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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
WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
91% 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 WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 74% · 2023 42% — 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
91% of WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 $21k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $207k 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
WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC 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
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
32% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $228,111 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($143,743). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $228,111 in grants to WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $143,743 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORTHINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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