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OHIO STATE BAR FOUNDATION

EIN 31-6054093 COLUMBUS, OH

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Revenue 2023
$1,988,238
Expenses 2023
$2,513,987

Program services were 62.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I128
Classification
1000
Street
1700 LAKE SHORE DRIVE 230

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 · 2023

Mission

THE OHIO STATE BAR FOUNDATION IS A NONPROFIT CORPORATION UNDER OHIO LAW, ORGANIZED FOR EDUCATIONAL, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC AND CHARITABLE PURPOSES. IT IS A MEMBERSHIP ORGANIZATION OF ATTORNEYS AND JUDGES, AND IS CONSIDERED "THE PROFESSIONAL HONORARY OF OHIO LAWYERS." THE OHIOSTATE BAR FOUNDATION FULFILLS ITS MISSION OF PROMOTING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE RULE OF LAW AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE JUSTICE SYSTEM THROUGHOUT OHIO BY AWARDING GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ADVANCE THAT MISSION.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MISSION IS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE RULE OF LAW AND IMPROVE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM.

  • THE OHIO STATE BAR FOUNDATION FULFILLS ITS MISSION OF PROMOTING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE RULE OF LAW AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM THROUGHOUT OHIO BY AWARDING GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS THAT ADVANCE THAT MISSION.

    Expenses $1,343,159 · Grants $1,086,135 · Revenue $30,670

  • THE FOUNDATION DEVELOPS AND PRESENTS FELLOWS PROGRAMMING DESIGNED TO PROMOTE PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW AND IMPROVE THE JUSTICE SYSTEM THROUGHOUT OHIO. THE FOUNDATION ALSO CREATES SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES WITH OUR VOLUNTEERS CONNECTING THEM TO OUR GRANTEES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC. THROUGH ITS AWARDS PROGRAM THE FOUNDATION RECOGNIZES INDIVIDUALS AND PROGRAMS OR ORGANIZATIONS WHOSE WORK PROMOTES PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAW OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM.

    Expenses $226,848

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Hon David A Hejmanowski

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10
  • Belinda Barnes

    PRESIDENT-ELECT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • J Kristin Burkett

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Thomas Guillozet

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Hon Dean L Wilson

    TRUSTEE SERVING EX-OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Kranz

    TRUSTEE SERVING EX-OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Barbara Friedman Yaksic

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Reginald S Jackson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Joseph E Wenger IV

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jonathan Hollingsworth

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • John D Holschuh

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Flowers

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Hilary Damaser

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tabitha D Justice

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Drew Odum

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Janet Green Marbley

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • R Benjamin Franz

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marley C Nelson

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah K Skow

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ron Kahn

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lori L Keating

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $212,761
    From this org
    $172,698
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $40,063
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $169,590
    Bonus
    $3,108
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,277
    Nontaxable benefits
    $30,786
    Filer's total
    $212,761

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,988,238
    Expenses
    $2,513,987
    Contributions
    $186,357
    Grants paid
    $1,086,135
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $7,851,950
    Expenses
    $2,765,348
    Contributions
    $179,720
    Grants paid
    $1,363,395

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
    $3,008,399
    Expenses
    $2,323,833
    Assets (EOY)
    $58,293,469
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,135,088
    Expenses
    $2,361,003
    Assets (EOY)
    $49,771,927
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,146,354
    Expenses
    $2,054,482
    Assets (EOY)
    $47,481,576
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,682,039
    Expenses
    $2,027,207
    Assets (EOY)
    $38,503,172
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,189,939
    Expenses
    $1,832,059
    Assets (EOY)
    $41,026,804
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,865,127
    Expenses
    $1,753,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,902,122
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,095,148
    Expenses
    $1,413,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $34,570,630
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,656,194
    Expenses
    $1,630,672
    Assets (EOY)
    $36,703,483
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,814,161
    Expenses
    $2,046,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $35,856,270
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $2,501,821
    Assets (EOY)
    $32,566,808

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

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 11 November 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 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.