Over-the-Rhine Museum
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 475262845
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Cincinnati, OH, United States
- Phone
- (513) 813-7309
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Museum, Museum Activities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $383,811
- Expenses
- $113,264
- Assets
- $605,528
- Liabilities
- $9,741
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DONNA HARRIS (OPERATIONS M): $51,957 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Over-the-Rhine Museum preserves and shares the history of Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, celebrating its diverse community while challenging itself and others to build a more empowered, inclusive, and joyful community.
What it reported doing in 2024
Public programs - otrm offers a variety of outstanding and entertaining educational programs highlighting over-the-rhine's rich history. Walking the story tour program offers four different 2-hour walking tours throughout cincinnati's historic over-the-rhine neighborhood, each offering fascinating and educational experiences lead by our knowledgable and and passionate guides. Three acts in over-the-rhine, a quarterly lecture series featuring three guest story-tellers who discuss research or first-hand accounts to give participants a deeper understanding of over-the-rhine and the evolving fabric of the neighborhood. Storefront exhibition, personal stories from the residents of 3 west mcmicken avenue in the newly restored windows of the museum building. Oral history project records the histories of people who have lived, worked, worshipped and played in over-the-rhine. These stories of the neighborhood's past give us rich perspective on the breadth and depth of those who have passed through this community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 86% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 33
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 74
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 15.7%; rating input score 16
- Program expense ratio: 51.9%; rating input score 52
- Fundraising efficiency: $21.82 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 70.5%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.35; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.9%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -51.2% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 15.7% of revenue deployed · 51.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $59K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $52K · 15 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 16/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.