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RURALORGANIZING-DOT-ORG EDUCATION FUND

EIN 85-1211115 COLUMBUS, OH

Largest nonprofits in Ohio

Revenue 2024
$1,261,590
Expenses 2024
$990,230

Program services were 77.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
A05
Classification
1200
Street
545 E TOWN 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

28 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list 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

To conduct public opinion research on the public policy views of rural Americans and educate the public and elected officials on those views. The organization also seeks to develop networks of rural Americans which share the organization's values.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To conduct public opinion research on the public policy view of rural Americans and educate the public and elected officials on those views. The organization also seeks to develop networks of rural Americans which share the organization's values.

  • Culture Change: We work to reshape how rural communities are perceived, both by non-rural people and by rural residents themselves. We work to equip everyday rural Americans with nonpartisan movement-building tools, we strengthen their ability to build resilient, welcoming communities and engage voters across traditional lines of difference.

    Expenses $487,539

  • Public Education/Policy Studies: Educating and engaging the public on rural economics (most rural workers are anchored in community serving sectors like schools, hospitals, and local businesses) and countering the outdated assumptions that rural means farms/agriculture.

    Expenses $274,646

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.

  • Matthew Hildreth

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $116,381
    From this org
    $116,381
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nick Levendofsky

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Liz Shaw

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rae O'Leary

    Board Member and Treasurer

    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
    $1,261,590
    Expenses
    $990,230
    Contributions
    $1,261,590
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $571,966
    Expenses
    $661,001
    Contributions
    $571,966
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,140,531
    Expenses
    $982,797
    Contributions
    $1,140,531
    Grants paid
    $91,800

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
    $237,608
    Expenses
    $299,432
    Assets (EOY)
    $59,430

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $200,000
    Expenses
    $78,746
    Assets (EOY)
    $121,254

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 2023 return

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

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.