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CINCINNATI FOUNDATION FOR MORTUARY EDUCATION

EIN 31-6064854 CINCINNATI, OH

Largest nonprofits in Ohio

Revenue 2024
$2,457,900
Expenses 2024
$3,461,846

Program services were 67.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
2000
Street
645 W NORTH BEND RD

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

MORTUARY EDUCATION ENDEAVORS TO DEVELOP PROFESSIONALS WHO CAN FUNCTION WITH DISTINCTION WITHIN THEIR CHOSEN PROFESSION AND WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF LIFE. WE STRIVE TO PROVIDE THE BEST EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR THE ENTRY LEVEL PRACTICE OF FUNERAL SERVICE.

Activities or mission (Part I)

WE STRIVE TO PROVIDE THE BEST EDUCATION POSSIBLE FOR THE ENTRY LEVEL PRACTICE OF FUNERAL SERVICE.

  • ALL PROGRAM SERVICE ACTIVITY IS FOR MORTUARY EDUCATION. WE SERVE APPROXIMATELY 133 STUDENTS ANNUALLY. AT THE END OF 2023 WE ALSO STARTED OFFERING HUMAN AND PET CREMATION SERVICES THROUGH THE EDUCATIONAL CREMATION CENTER.

    Expenses $2,344,632 · Revenue $2,405,390

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.

  • Kathleen Shaffer

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kenn Peterson

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Bittner

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Coleen Ellis

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jim Flynn

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Duane Hedrick

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim King

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Poul Lemasters

    BOARD LIAISON

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Laura Nobbe

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jerome Weaver

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Arlene Lawrence

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Patrick Reger

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Ryan

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brian Dershaw

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Chad Nieter

    EX OFFICIO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jack E Lechner Jr

    PRESIDENT AND CEO

    Total calculated
    $90,668
    From this org
    $78,674
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,994
    Hours/week
    40
  • Jerome Webster PhD

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $39,507
    From this org
    $35,915
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,592
    Hours/week
    40
  • Mark D Ivey

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $143,594
    From this org
    $110,742
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,852
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,457,900
    Expenses
    $3,461,846
    Contributions
    $59,911
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,011,833
    Expenses
    $3,391,335
    Contributions
    $508,607
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,050,802
    Expenses
    $2,985,209
    Contributions
    $52,252
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $2,941,530
    Expenses
    $2,310,341
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,763,636
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,670,226
    Expenses
    $2,194,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,083,586
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,491,608
    Expenses
    $2,152,986
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,610,010
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,546,176
    Expenses
    $2,008,080
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,874,985
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,052,449
    Expenses
    $1,807,806
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,212,213
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,644,892
    Expenses
    $1,642,671
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,137,446
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,627,857
    Expenses
    $1,535,613
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,151,445
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,479,351
    Expenses
    $1,425,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,846,591
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,355,582
    Expenses
    $1,405,199
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,868,507
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,473,289
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,090,291

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

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 on its 2024 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.