JobsOhio
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452798687
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- (614) 224-6446
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Employment Procurement Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $313,472,056
- Expenses
- $301,640,729
- Assets
- $1,439,269,801
- Liabilities
- $556,194,033
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JP NAUSEEF (PRESIDENT & CIO)
- SHEILA AEKINS (VICE PRESIDENT, HR)
Highest reported compensation
- JP NAUSEEF (PRESIDENT & CIO): $797,080 total reported compensation
- DANA SAUCIER (VP, HEAD OF ECONOMIC DEV): $527,858 total reported compensation
- ANDREW DEYE (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $491,804 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To promote economic development, job creation, job retention, job training, workforce development, and the retention of current and recruitment of new business to ohio. JobsOhio’s team of experts supports business development and economic growth that drive the state’s ambitions forward. We are the Leaders Behind Ohio's Competitive Advantage Our experts come from different industry backgrounds, but all are committed to the JobsOhio mission: enabling sustainable economic growth and a better quality of life for all Ohioans. Ranked top five in the Financial Services sector, your business will be fueled by a world-class ecosystem of top-tier tech talent, unrivaled venture capital, and low operating costs in Ohio. With strong support for fintech and Insurtech, no state gives your business the ability to take on key industry challenges like AI, cybersecurity, and IoT like we do — all within...
What it reported doing in 2024
Jobsohio's program of economic development focused on job creation, job retention, and new capital investment from existing business expansion and attraction of new companies to the state of Ohio, the economic development program has increased in intensity in fiscal year 2024 as jobsohio promoted new economic development while continuing to leverage existing programs. Jobsohio received a contribution of $255,000,000 during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025 from jobsohio beverage system to aid in carrying out its jobs creation and other economic development activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 44% for direct work, and 56% for grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.77; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $269.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $797K · 22 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $15.2M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 391 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 380 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.