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DESIGN IMPACT

EIN 26-4662578 CINCINNATI, OH

Largest nonprofits in Ohio

Revenue 2024
$697,435
Expenses 2024
$1,037,556

Program services were 38.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
3874 PAXTON AVE UNIT 9865

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

DESIGN IMPACT AS A NON-PROFIT SOCIAL INNOVATION FIRM, EMPOWERS COMMUNITIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND SYSTEMS TO INNOVATE ON THEIR CURRENT PRACTICES AND TACKLE SEEMINGLY UNSOLVABLE PROBLEMS THROUGH A CREATIVE AND INCLUSIVE LENS.

  • WE INCUBATE PROJECTS THAT TRANSFORM COMMUNITIES. THE MADISONVILLE COMMUNITY STUDIO PROJECT LOOKS AT THE ROLE RACE PLAYS IN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND HOW IT AFFECTS RESIDENTS. THE PROJECT SEEKS TO LIFT UP THE VOICES OF MADISONVILLE RESIDENTS MOST IMPACTED BY NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT TO UNDERSTAND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN RACE AND NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT. BY LISTENING TO RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS OWNERS MOST IMPACTED, THIS PROJECT WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE AS RESIDENTS HELP INFORM AND LEAD THE DIRECTION OF THE PROJECT.

    Expenses $193,438

  • WE EQUIP LEADERS WITH HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGN AND ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TOOLS. AN EXAMPLE OF AN EQUIP PROJECTIS OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH FEEDING AMERICA WERE WE SUPPORTED FOUR PROJECT TEAMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AS THEY TEST AND IMPLEMENT PROTOTYPES OF INNOVATIVE NEW HUNGER INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $146,722

  • WE ALSO WORK TO ADVANCE METHODS OF CREATIVE COMMUNITY CHANGE. WE DO THIS THROUGH SMALL ONE DAY OF LESS WORKSHOPS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. WE ALSO REFLECTED ON OUR WORK AND THE PATTERNS WE NOTICED TO CREATE A REPORT CALLED METATHEMES. METATHEMES IS A RESEARCH REPORT THAT PRESETS A COLLECTION OF COMMON SOCIAL EQUITY THEMES AND TAGETE APPROACHED TO ADDRESSING THEM THAT ORGANIZATIONS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF SOCIAL IMPACT CAN MODIFY AND IMPLEMENT.

    Expenses $57,499

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Lyndon Rego

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Phim Her

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rosie Mora

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sulin Ngo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tessa Xuan

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dawna Leggett

    CHAIR (TERM NOV 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nickol Mora

    CHAIR (START NOV 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karl Vanderbeek

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ramsey Ford

    EMERITUS BOARD MEMEBER/TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Indi Ekanayake

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Teresa Gonzalez

    PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE

    Total calculated
    $121,540
    From this org
    $121,540
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $697,435
    Expenses
    $1,037,556
    Contributions
    $683,583
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,427,816
    Expenses
    $1,317,225
    Contributions
    $1,410,293
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,423,787
    Expenses
    $1,375,740
    Contributions
    $1,413,509
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,243,157
    Expenses
    $1,298,261
    Assets (EOY)
    $834,648
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,043,823
    Expenses
    $1,021,453
    Assets (EOY)
    $887,481
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,078,783
    Expenses
    $1,031,294
    Assets (EOY)
    $934,731
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $984,196
    Expenses
    $858,048
    Assets (EOY)
    $745,227
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $987,410
    Expenses
    $798,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $613,029
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $928,542
    Expenses
    $899,203
    Assets (EOY)
    $430,646
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $901,581
    Expenses
    $735,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $393,292
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $487,733
    Expenses
    $409,069
    Assets (EOY)
    $191,938
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $229,795
    Expenses
    $233,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $104,811
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $156,864
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,301

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.