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OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION

EIN 34-1636766 AKRON, OH

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Revenue 2024
$12,559,174
Expenses 2024
$14,934,536

Program services were 96.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A82Z
Classification
1000
Street
47 W EXCHANGE ST

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

OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION SHALL STIMULATE PUBLIC INTEREST AND SUPPORT FOR THE PROTECTION, PRESERVATION, DEVELOPMENT, AND ENHANCEMENT OF THE HISTORICAL, NATURAL, AND RECREATIONAL RESOURCES ALONG THE ROUTE OF THE OHIO & ERIE CANAL.

Activities or mission (Part I)

OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION SEEKS TO PRESERVE, INTERPRET, AND DEVELOP THE NATURAL, HISTORICAL, AND RECREATIONAL RESOURCES ALONG THE OHIO & ERIE CANALS THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND EVENTS. THEY ALSO WORK IN PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO BUILD THE 101-MILE TOWPATH TRAIL.

  • FOUNDED IN 1989, THE OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY COALITION (OECC) SEEKS TO PRESERVE, INTERPRET, AND DEVELOP THE NATURAL, HISTORICAL, AND RECREATIONAL RESOURCES ALONG THE OHIO & ERIE CANALWAY NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, EVENTS, AND PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING FISHING DERBIES, TOWPATH TREK, HEALTHY STEPS, TOWPATH CENTURY RIDE, AND THE TOWPATH COMPANION, OECC BUILDS COMMUNITY SUPPORT FOR THE OHIO & ERIE CANAL AND TOWPATH TRAIL. OECC PARTNERS AND COLLABORATES WITH MORE THAN 150 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS IN SUMMIT, STARK, TUSCARAWAS, HARRISON, AND CUYAHOGA COUNTIES, PROVIDING TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS TO CITIZENS OF NORTHEAST OHIO. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE INCLUDES ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, FUNDRAISING, PROJECT MANAGEMENT, TRAIL AND GREENWAY PLANNING, AND GOVERNMENT RELATIONS. SINCE 1989, OECC HAS WORKED ON VARIOUS RESOURCE CONSERVATION PROJECTS INCLUDING THE RICHARD HOWE HOUSE RESTORATION, LIMBACH BUILDINGS IN THE VILLAGE OF CANAL FULTON, BOTH SUMMIT AND TUSCARAWAS COUNTY TRAIL & GREENWAY PLANS, AND THE BUCKHORN CREEK TRAIL DEVELOPMENT IN TUSCARAWAS COUNTY. IN 2015, OECC WAS SELECTED BY JOHN S. & JAMES L. KNIGHT FOUNDATION TO IMPLEMENT THE TOWPATH PROJECT TO IMPROVE CONNECTIVITY, ACCESSIBILITY, SAFETY, AND AESTHETICS OF THE TOWPATH TRAIL IN AKRON, OHIO. IN 2016, OECC WAS SELECTED BY THE MIAMI FOUNDATION TO RECEIVE A THREE-YEAR, $4 MILLION GRANT FOR REIMAGINING THE CIVIC COMMONS (RCC). RCC IS FOCUSED ON ENHANCING AND ACTIVATING PUBLIC SPACES TO PROMOTE CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC INTEGRATION, FOSTER VALUE CREATION, AND STIMULATE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY. IN 2020, OECC RECEIVED AN ADDITIONAL GRANT FROM THE MIAMI FOUNDATION TO FURTHER THE RCC PROJECTS ALONG THE TOWPATH INCLUDING AT SUMMIT LAKE AND LOCK 3 IN AKRON. IN 2021 OECC BEGAN THE DESIGN AND FUNDRAISING PROCESS FOR THE REVITALIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SUMMIT LAKE AND LOCK 3.

    Expenses $14,478,563 · Grants $15,000 · Revenue $592,253

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.

  • Jeffrey Herold

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Patricia Piteo

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Nicholas Gattozzi

    SECOND VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Bret Treier

    FIRST VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Darrin Toney

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • James Panezott

    ASSOCIATE BOARD CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Corbin Moon

    ASSOCIATE BOARD CO-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth W Stephenson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Vallillo

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Nathan Quicksall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Monica Janiak

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Phil Montgomery

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin Martin

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karl Lucas

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Robert Malone

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Hoffman

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Allison S Walters

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Brian Harte

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roseanne Deucher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Francis S Buchholzer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Bordenkircher

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jon Elsasser

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melinda Chase

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janae Bragg

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John Judge

    PAST BOARD CHARIMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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
    $12,559,174
    Expenses
    $14,934,536
    Contributions
    $11,210,983
    Grants paid
    $15,000
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $10,846,616
    Expenses
    $7,476,146
    Contributions
    $10,019,849
    Grants paid
    $20,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,598,986
    Expenses
    $2,703,101
    Contributions
    $2,580,420
    Grants paid
    $42,000

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
    $4,067,863
    Expenses
    $2,080,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,640,021
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,248,595
    Expenses
    $1,524,429
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,965,284
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $918,120
    Expenses
    $2,432,542
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,384,359
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,639,882
    Expenses
    $2,376,991
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,642,694
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,355,834
    Expenses
    $1,846,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,413,297

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

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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 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.