Ohiox Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 842852422
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6145943309
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $656,930
- Expenses
- $554,500
- Assets
- $446,984
- Liabilities
- $769
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISTOPHER BERRY (DIRECTOR & P): $171,378 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Ohiox is a nonprofit organization that represents, connects, promotes, and advocates for those committed to growing Ohio's economy through technology and innovation.
What it reported doing in 2025
Ohiox championed policies and programs to strengthen Ohio's tech workforce, innovation economy, and global competitiveness. Ohio tech day, our flagship tech education program, reached more than 35,000 students across the state through our 2025 mailer-a significant expansion from prior years. We helped lead the push for a statewide computer science graduation requirement, joining legislative leaders at the statehouse to support legislation requiring Ohio high schools to offer computer science and requiring students to complete a computer science course to graduate-building on the momentum of ohioforcs.com, our joint call from 100+ tech ceos. At the federal level, ohiox advocated for innovation policies such as the restoration of full and immediate expensing of research and development costs, warning that current rules are chilling r&d investment, harming Ohio startups, and ceding ground to global competitors. We also continued to support state-led ai workforce initiatives rooted in our previous work around the Ohio ai toolkit for schools and Ohio's ai in education strategy.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 79% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.7%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 30.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 30.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 36% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 34.9% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $171K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.