How to Use the Ohio Nonprofit Financial Data Source

To create data tables:

• Choose a Program Category
  • With your mouse, click on the right-hand side of the Program Category box to expand the list of categories.
    • You may navigate through the list using either your mouse or the up and down arrows on your keyboard.
    • Program categories are listed alphabetically.
  • To choose a program category, click on the category name.
• Choose Geographic Region/s
  • Click on the right-hand side of the Area box to expand the area list.
    • Within the list, you may choose one or more areas to view at a time.
    • Areas include the entire state of Ohio, Cleveland and its suburbs, 13 Metropolitan Statistical Areas, and Ohio’s counties.
    • Please note: not all geographic areas contain all types of organizations
  • To choose a single area, click on the area name.
  • To choose more than one area at a time, depress the Ctrl key while clicking on multiple areas, or click and drag your mouse over multiple areas.
• Choose Financial Variable/s
  • The complete list of variables is visible in the Field box.
    • Within the list, you may choose one or more financial variables to view at a time.
      • To view descriptions of individual variables: Double-click your mouse on a single variable name and its definition will appear.
  • To choose a single variable, click on the variable name.
  • To choose more than one variable at a time, depress the Ctrl key while clicking on multiple variables, or click and drag your mouse over multiple variables
• Submit your choices by clicking the Submit button at the bottom of the page.

Using data tables:

• The resulting data page will identify the program category and geographic area/s you are viewing.
• Within the data tables, it is important to identify the program size categories.
  • Programs are divided into relative size categories based on Operating Revenues. Operating Revenues = Program Service Revenues + Contribution Revenues + Membership Dues
  • The first table column is Quartile. All Ohio organizations in each program type with operating revenues greater than zero were divided into four equal categories.
  • Those organizations reporting zero operating revenues were placed into a fifth category of unequal size, which is located below the quartiles in the data table.
  • The second and third columns, labeled Low Range and High Range, indicate the dividing points for the size categories.
• The fourth column, Frequency, indicates how many organizations in each size category are located in the geographic area.
  • Depending on the geographic area you have chosen, there may or may not be equal numbers of organizations in each size category.
    • If there are no organizations of a size category in the area, the quartile and its range will not be shown within the table.
• Remaining columns in the table are averages for the financial variables you chose to display.

Example table:

Ohio Nonprofit Financial Data Source

Program Category: Civil Rights, Social Action, Advocacy

Geographic Area: Ohio

Quartile	Low Range	High Range	Frequency	Average Membership Dues,/td>	Average Total Revenue
1	$1	$44,584	18	$1,220	$54,749
2	$44,585	$117,385	17	$6,728	$94,720
3	$117,386	$257,665	17	$1,560	$211,170
4	$257,666	$2,901,929	17	$25,032	$882,618
zero operating revenue	$0	$0	1	$0	$80,653

Example: Finding comparable organization information
I am a financial manager of a Social Action organization with Operating Revenues of $60,000. I look at the data table, and find that I fall between the low ($44,585) and high ($117,385) ranges of the second quartile. I follow the row across to find that there are 17 Ohio Social Action organizations in my size category. Average Membership Dues for organizations in my size category are $6,728, and Average Total Revenues for in my size category are $94,720.