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FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO

EIN 31-1620483 NELSONVILLE, OH

Revenue 2024
$26,141,317
Expenses 2024
$11,501,492

Program services were 72.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T310
Classification
1000
Street
35 PUBLIC SQ

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).

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.

  • RONALD STRICKMAKER

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TJ CONGER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JEFFREY CHADDOCK

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY LAHMERS

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTOPHER MOONEY

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NANCY LUSK ZIMPHER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SARAH WILLS

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KRISTI TANNER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KEN TAYLOR

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERA COLEMAN

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TERI GEIGER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MEGAN KVAMME

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARC REITTER

    TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • TOM W JOHNSON

    EMERITUS/TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RON CREMEANS

    EMERITUS/TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ROBERT MICK MCLAUGHLIN

    EMERITUS/TRUSTEE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • HOLLY SHELTON

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $179,245
    From this org
    $163,245
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,000
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,245
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,000
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $179,245

  • CARA BROOK

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $261,547
    From this org
    $250,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,547
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $250,000
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,547
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $261,547

  • JO ELLEN DIEHL YEARY

    TRUSTEE

    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 — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $26,141,317
    Expenses
    $11,501,492
    Contributions
    $20,432,573
    Grants paid
    $6,596,626
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $29,031,055
    Expenses
    $13,767,751
    Contributions
    $26,843,877
    Grants paid
    $9,279,958
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $22,438,784
    Expenses
    $5,525,145
    Contributions
    $20,052,764
    Grants paid
    $1,975,071

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 10 September 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.