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EQUALITY OHIO

EIN 02-0743270 COLUMBUS, OH

Revenue 2024
$150,706
Expenses 2024
$212,151

Program services were 43.9% of total expenses calculated — Part III's total program service expenses over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
04
NTEE code
R26
Classification
3000
Street
370 S 5TH STREET

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

Primary exempt purpose

Equality Ohio identifies and transforms systems and institutions so LGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality. We envision an Ohio where peope are welcome,

  • DIRECT LOBBYING: The purpose of this program is to advocate directly topolicymakers regarding legislation that transforms systems and institutions soLGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality.

    Expenses $16,507

  • LEGISTLATIVE ACTIVITY/NON-DIRECT LOBBYING: The purpose of this program is to develop strategy and gain support for legislation that furthers Equality Ohiosvision of an Ohio where people are welcome, affirmed, and flourishing. This includes time spent on coalition planning and relationship buildingrelated to specific pieces of legistlation, as well as working with constituents directly to help them understand and engage with the legistlation process so that LGBTQ+ Ohioas can access full legal and lived equality.

    Expenses $50,393

  • POLITICAL ACTIVITIES: The purpose of this program is to endorse and otherwise supportcandidates and ballot initiatives that promote LGBTQ+ equality and other issuesthat directly impact LGBTQ+ Ohioans.

    Expenses $26,310

  • 501(C)(4) BOARD/ADMIN: The purpose of this program is to support the Equality Ohio Board, administration of our legistlative programmatic work, and to otherwise ensure that our work to achieve legal and lived equality for LGBTQ+ Ohioans manifests thoughtfully, efficiently, strategically, and effectively.

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

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Eileen Galvin

    Chair and Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Ben Garcia

    Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Melissa McLaren

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Tim Johnson

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Shelly Riggs

    Member

    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
    $150,706
    Expenses
    $212,151
    Contributions
    $150,706
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $147,448
    Expenses
    $199,398
    Contributions
    $147,448
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $130,404
    Expenses
    $85,185
    Contributions
    $130,404
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $130,153
    Expenses
    $69,105
    Contributions
    $130,153
    Grants paid
    not reported
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $133,946
    Expenses
    $122,943
    Contributions
    $133,946
    Grants paid
    not reported

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-EZ

    Revenue
    $73,634
    Expenses
    $60,377
    Assets (EOY)
    $100,714
  • 2021 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $74,161
    Expenses
    $58,876
    Assets (EOY)
    $102,671
  • 2020 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $105,924
    Expenses
    $75,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $90,404

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