Ohio Lesbians Archives
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310900822
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, USA
- Phone
- 5132464283
- Rating
- 51
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Libraries
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,120
- Expenses
- $30,219
- Assets
- $167,075
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nancy Yerian (President)
People named in this filing
- Shiri Ayalon (Treasurer)
- Nancy Yerian (President)
- Phebe Beiser (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ohio Lesbian Archives was organized as an educational organization that preserves the history of the lives of Ohio lesbians and their struggle for civil, social, and economic equality. It collects, preserves, and share materials from Greater Cincinnati LGTBQ+ communities and beyond. The Ohio Lesbian Archives is a history resource and has been collecting materials by and about Lesbians and Greater Cincinnati LGBTQ+ communities for more than three decades. We are open by appointment to anyone curious about our collections.
What it reported doing in 2025
Collections Care: specialized electronic equipment for the description and management of rare books and archival materials. This benefits the approximately 200 visitors/researchers to the Archives in 2025 as well as all future visitors and researchers.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 4.6%; rating input score 5
- Program expense ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 13
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 64.1%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.53; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -6.3% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 148.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 38.5% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 4.6% of revenue deployed · 12.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 5/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.