Ohio Valley Wood Turners Guild
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311448421
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-T 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Fort Thomas, KY, USA
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Education N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $79,630
- Expenses
- $58,291
- Assets
- $245,021
- Liabilities
- $4,950
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jerry Warner (President)
- Jon Hornbach (past President)
People named in this filing
- Jerry Warner (President)
- David Wright (VP of Programming)
- John Albachten (VP of Facilities)
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
Our organization is dedicated to providing woodturning education to individuals in the Cincinnati area. Through hands-on workshops demonstrations and classes we aim to promote the art and craft of woodturning. Participants learn essential skills techniques and safety practices fostering a community of passionate woodturners. Our program encourages creativity and craftsmanship preserving and advancing this traditional art form for future generations.
What it reported doing in 2025
In October 2025 OVWG hosted a 3-day woodturning symposium with 4 professional demonstrators and 10 regional guests leading instructional seminars. 13 vendors provided various products and services. An instant gallery allowed for showcasing work and receiving feedback. Live and silent auctions enabled the purchase of donated art pieces. 300 people from the Cincinnati area and several surrounding states attended this event.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 26.8%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.2; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 153.5% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 79.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.8% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.