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JACK NICKLAUS MUSEUM INC

EIN 65-0220781 COLUMBUS, OH

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Revenue 2024
$30,000
Expenses 2024
$201,471

Program services were 100.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A58Z
Classification
1000
Street
2355 OLENTANGY RIVER RD

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

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE MUSEUM IS TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU).

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE MUSEUM IS TO SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU), AND IN PARTICULAR TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR OSU TO DISPLAY GOLF-RELATED AND OTHER MEMORABILIA OF JACK W. NICKLAUS, AN OSU ALUMNUS, TO MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC, TOGETHER WITH SUCH RELATED INTERPRETIVE, HISTORICAL, AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AS MAY FURTHER THE KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE LIFE AND CAREER OF JACK W. NICKLAUS AND THE HISTORY OF GOLF IN GENERAL.

  • THE JACK NICKLAUS MUSEUM OPENED TO THE PUBLIC ON MAY 21, 2002. THE MUSEUM SUPPORTS THE MISSION OF OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY (OSU) BY PROVIDING FACILITIES THROUGH WHICH OSU IS ABLE TO CONDUCT THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES: - EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES- PROVIDES EMPLOYMENT- UNIVERSITY MEETINGS- STUDENT EVENTS- ALUMNI AND FACULTY ACTIVITIES- PROVIDES DISPLAY SPACE TO THE GOLF PROGRAM AND TURF MANAGEMENT PROGRAMTHE MUSEUM PROVIDES CONTINUOUS DISPLAY SPACE TO BOTH THE UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGIATE GOLF AND THE UNIVERSITY'S TURF MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS. THE MUSEUM PROMOTES THE UNIVERSITY'S TURF MANAGEMENT PROGRAM BY EDUACATING THE STUDENTS AND PUBLIC ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND TURF MANAGEMENT CAREER OPPORTUNITIES. THE MUSUEM PROMOTES THE UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGIATE GOLF PROGRAMS BY EDUCATING STUDENTS AND THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE GAME OF GOLF AND THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY'S COLLEGIATE GOLF PROGRAMS.

    Expenses $201,471

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

  • Jack W Nicklaus II

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Barbara B Nicklaus

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John W Kessler

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nicholas Larocca

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Daniel M Maher

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • David P Lauer

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Jankovic

    FINANCIAL OFFICIAL

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $30,000
    Expenses
    $201,471
    Contributions
    $30,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $60,000
    Expenses
    $196,493
    Contributions
    $60,000
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $201,029
    Contributions
    $0
    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
    $0
    Expenses
    $170,460
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,349,175
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $0
    Expenses
    $222,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,521,001
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,500
    Expenses
    $198,964
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,743,068
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,500
    Expenses
    $194,171
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,891,392
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,500
    Expenses
    $197,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,060,585
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $52,500
    Expenses
    $202,445
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,250,767
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,550
    Expenses
    $195,558
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,377,612
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $67,550
    Expenses
    $196,605
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,546,495
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $27,550
    Expenses
    $240,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,698,650
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $194,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $28,911,686

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

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

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.