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LEAD OHIO

EIN 47-3665908 COLUMBUS, OH

Revenue 2024
$772,800
Expenses 2024
$654,225

Program services were 71.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
B60
Classification
3000
Street
4182 WORTH AVENUE I-115

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

AT LEAD OHIO OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN COMMUNITIES ACROSS OHIO BY RECRUITING, TRAINING, SUPPORTING AND EMPOWERING PROGRESSIVE LEADERS IN ALL REGIONS OF THE STATE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

LEAD OHIO FILLS A UNIQUE GAP IN OHIO'S PROGRESSIVE INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH A SERIES OF TRAINING PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR COMMUNITY LEADERS WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON EQUITY FOR GROUPS WHO ARE UNDERREPRESENTED IN GOVERNMENT. THIS INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, MILLENNIALS / GEN ZS AND MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY. WHO CAN TRAIN WITH LEAD OHIO? WE WELCOME PROGRESSIVES FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS WE'VE FOUND THAT THOSE WHO BENEFIT MOST FROM OUR TRAININGS INCLUDE COMMUNITY LEADERS AND ACTIVISTS,NONPROFIT LEADERS, CAMPAIGN OPERATIVES AND VOLUNTEERS AND POTENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR PUBLIC OFFICE. WHY TRAIN WITH LEAD OHIO? AT LEAD OHIO WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON OFFERING THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP AND CAMPAIGN TRAINING PROGRAM IN THE STATE, THE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY, ALONGSIDE WEEKEND WORKSHOPS ALL TAUGHT BY SOME OF THE MOST SEASONED EXPERTS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE FIELDS IN OHIO. LEAD OHIO SETS ITSELF APART FROM MANY OTHER TRAINING ORGANIZATIONS NOT ONLY BY THE DEPTH OF OUR

  • LEAD OHIO, A PRIVATE 501(C)(4) ORGANIZATION, HAS A MISSION TO BUILD A MORE PROGRESSIVE OHIO THROUGH A GOVERNMENT REFLECTIVE OF THE DIVERSE MAKEUP OF THE STATE. THROUGH ITS PROGRAMMING, LEAD OHIO RECRUITS, TRAINS, CONNECTS, AND EDUCATES PROGRESSIVES ACROSS OHIO ON HOW TO SHAPE A MORE EQUITABLE AND JUST FUTURE FOR ALL OHIOANS. THE ORGANIZATION PRIORITIZES SERVING UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS - LIKE WOMEN, BIPOC, MILLENNIALS/GEN ZS, AND MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY - WHEN CREATING PROGRAMS THAT EMPOWER AND ENABLE LEADERS IN OHIO'S INSTITUTIONS. LEAD OHIO HOLDS TO ITS CORE VALUE THAT ALL OHIOANS SHOULD BE AFFORDED THE OPPORTUNITY TO THRIVE AND PROGRESSIVE PUBLIC POLICIES FOR AN ECONOMICALLY, ENVIRONMENTALLY, AND SOCIALLY EQUITABLE SOCIETY ARE NECESSARY TO REALIZE THAT OPPORTUNITY.

    Expenses $467,881 · Grants $860 · Revenue $328,579

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.

  • LOUISE VALENTINE

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $138,566
    From this org
    $138,566
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • ANTONIA DIPPOLD-WEBB

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DR LEE SHACKELFORD

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KIMBERLY PADILLA

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIM BURGA

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT DIMAURO

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE KNISLEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ANITA SOMANI MD

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KYLE STRICKLAND

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

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
    $772,800
    Expenses
    $654,225
    Contributions
    $444,221
    Grants paid
    $860
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $670,919
    Expenses
    $718,782
    Contributions
    $670,919
    Grants paid
    $474
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $411,605
    Expenses
    $348,500
    Contributions
    $411,605
    Grants paid
    $4,563

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
    $388,629
    Expenses
    $323,125
    Assets (EOY)
    $203,203

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $312,593
    Expenses
    $281,452
    Assets (EOY)
    $137,299

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $357,956
    Expenses
    $307,454
    Assets (EOY)
    $101,538

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $220,842
    Expenses
    $196,804
    Assets (EOY)
    $51,036

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $148,579
    Expenses
    $176,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,998

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $144,111
    Expenses
    $113,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $55,117

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.

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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

Not present in the most recent drop.

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.