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THE THURBER HOUSE INCORPORATED

EIN 31-1136182 COLUMBUS, OH

Largest nonprofits in Ohio

Revenue 2024
$788,056
Expenses 2024
$697,947

Program services were 70.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A76Z
Classification
1000
Street
77 JEFFERSON AVE

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

IT IS TO CELEBRATE THE WRITTEN WORD FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT OF THE BROADEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE AND TO CONTINUE THURBER'S LEGACY OF HUMOR.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO CELEBRATE THE WRITTEN WORD FOR THE EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT OF THE BROADEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE AND TO CONTINUE THURBER'S LEGACY OF HUMOR.

  • THE THURBER HOUSE, INC ("THE THURBER HOUSE") IS A NON-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FORMED IN 1985 FOR THE PURPOSE OF SERVING AS A LITERARY CENTER, CELEBRATING HUMOR AND THE WRITTEN WORD AS AN ONGOING LEGACY OF COLUMBUS NATIVE SON JAMES THURBER. WITH THIS MISSION IN MIND, THE THURBER HOUSE OFFERS A CHILDREN'S WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM; SEVERAL PROGRAMS TO BRING NATIONAL AND LOCAL AUTHORS TO THE THURBER HOUSE FOR READINGS; MANY EDUCATIONAL AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN, TEENS, AND ADULTS; AND A MUSEUM AND SHOP DEVOTED TO JAMES THURBER AND HIS WORKS.

    Expenses $491,838 · Revenue $216,654

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.

  • Laurie Lathan

    EXECUTIVE DI

    Total calculated
    $107,675
    From this org
    $99,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,675
    Hours/week
    40

  • Paula Cole

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Aman Garcha

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael Bowman

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Victor Dandridge

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Eschelman Esq

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Elizabeth Howard Esq

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Denise Mirman Esq

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Barbie Tootle

    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
    $788,056
    Expenses
    $697,947
    Contributions
    $547,436
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $754,379
    Expenses
    $859,995
    Contributions
    $550,496
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $531,507
    Expenses
    $799,027
    Contributions
    $366,615
    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

  • 2024 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $711,315
    Expenses
    $633,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $836,925

  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $609,459
    Expenses
    $449,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $872,914

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $586,450
    Expenses
    $574,640
    Assets (EOY)
    $648,250

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

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.