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EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND

EIN 02-0743268 COLUMBUS, OH

Revenue 2024
$1,836,336
Expenses 2024
$2,390,970

Program services were 92.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R26
Classification
2000
Street
370 S 5TH ST STE G3

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

Equality Ohio Education Fund identifies and transorms systems and institutions so LGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality. We envision an Ohio where people are welcome, affirmed, and flourishing.

  • State & Local Advocacy: This encompasses our efforts to educate and increase the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community and other vulnerable communities in order to increase acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, achieve a more cooperative progressive community, and obtain legal and lived equality for LGBTQ+ people in Ohio.

    Expenses $1,040,534

  • LEGAL CLINIC: We offer many free legal services, including consumer law (such as fraud and identity theft), family law, civil rights, administrative help (such as SSI or disability), identity documents and more to LGBTQ+ Ohioans at 300% of the federal poverty rate. Since the beginning of our Legal Clinic program, we have proudly served more than 2,700 LGBTQ+ individuals in navigating complex legal systems impacting their lives.

    Expenses $758,879

  • Communcations: Encompasses our efforts to analyze, educate about, and work to improve policies, processes, and procedures impacting the LGBTQ+ community in corporations, municipalities, administrative agencies, and state government.

    Expenses $304,010

  • Chroma

    Expenses $2,612

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.

  • Dwayne Steward Executive Director

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    Total calculated
    $42,918
    From this org
    $42,918
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    55

  • Lynn Ready Chair Secretary

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Chad Williams Treasurer

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Levent Talgar Vice Chair

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathy Bowman Member

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lynn Carter Member

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dabney Conwell Member

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brian Malachowsky

    370 S. 5th St, Ste G3, Columbus, OH, 43215

    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
    $1,836,336
    Expenses
    $2,390,970
    Contributions
    $1,498,567
    Grants paid
    $38,150
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,801,949
    Expenses
    $2,388,972
    Contributions
    $1,488,069
    Grants paid
    $38,150
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,196,574
    Expenses
    $2,223,194
    Contributions
    $1,726,055
    Grants paid
    $3,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,337,526
    Expenses
    $2,207,612
    Contributions
    $1,870,080
    Grants paid
    $3,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,446,418
    Expenses
    $1,916,897
    Contributions
    $2,048,461
    Grants paid
    $82,745

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
    $1,167,587
    Expenses
    $1,813,477
    Assets (EOY)
    $663,905

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,772,796
    Expenses
    $1,275,246
    Assets (EOY)
    $934,494

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.