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Empowering Ohio's Economy Inc

The corporation is organized to promote economic and business development within ohio, for the purpose of bringing about civic betterments and social improvements.

$1.6M
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Community Improvement$3.0MPublic Benefit$1.9MCivil Rights$770kEducation$510kArts & Culture$120kHealth$110kCrime & Legal$50kRecreation & Sports$20k
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.5M
$500,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPEN ROAD PATH$1,005,350
COALITION FOR TERM LIMITS INC$500,000
REACHING EVERYONE IN DISTRESS$50,000
LIBERTY OHIO$50,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND: $100k → 14%RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND: $50k → 14%AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 6 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
18

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+13%

Still filing today

33%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
HealthCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • OR
    OPEN ROAD PATH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3.0M
  • GN
    GENERATION NOW
    3× · 2017–2019 · $700k
  • OW
    OHIO WORKS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $350k

Funded once

  • SS
    STATE SOLUTIONS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $525k · revenue -3%
  • TP
    Two Paths America
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -100%
  • CF
    Coalition for Growth and Opportunity Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $200k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ohioans for Redistricting Reform

Research organization focuses on eliminating and preventing gerrymandering in the State of Ohio.

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2
Ohioans for Free and Fair Elections

Ohioans for free and fair elections (offe) supports ohio-first policies focused on improving life for working families and small business owners. we share information about legislation that champions fiscal responsibility, economic growth,…

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3
Ohio Conservative Restoration Project

Ohio conservative restoration seeks to educate the public about common sense solutions to various public policy issues in the state of ohio, including but not limited to law enforcement and the promotion of law and order.

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4
Ohio Alliance for Civil Justice Inc

The ohio alliance for civil justice is a not-for-profit broad-based coalition which works to reform ohio's civil justice system.

Civil Rights
5
Ohio Debate Commission Inc

Our mission is to foster fair and substantive debates that encourage participation in our democracy, and our vision is of a stronger Ohio, with well informed voters and highly qualified public servants, candidates, and elected officials.

Civil Rights
6
Ohio Growth Partnership

To promote the common good and general welfare of ohioans.

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7
Renew Ohio

To educate ohioans on wise public policy and decisions made by those in government that affect it. in 2021, policymakers made decisions on legislative and congressional redistricting that will have an outsize effect on public policy and as…

Public Benefit
8
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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9
On Your Side Ohio

The mission of the organization is to engage in education and advocacy around key public policy issues affecting the people of ohio.

Public Benefit
10
Invest in Ohio

To educate the public on policy issues.

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11
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

To convene a high capacity group of individual and institutional donors that leverages resources to achieve policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio, and to promote education through distributions to exempt educational…

Civil Rights
12
Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohioans for a Healthy Economy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reaching Everyone in Distress Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPEN ROAD PATH INC — $3,005,350 · OtherOPEN ROAD PATH INCGENERATION NOW — $700,000 · OtherGENERATION NOWCOALITION FOR TERM LIMITS INC — $500,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR TERM LIMITS INCOHIO WORKS INC — $350,000 · OtherOHIO WORKS INCTwo Paths America — $250,000 · OtherCoalition for Growth and Opportunity Inc — $200,000 · Other+8 more — $450,000 · Other+8 moreSTATE SOLUTIONS INC — $525,000 · Public BenefitSTATE SOL…OHIOANS FOR A HEALTHY ECONOMY INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitRULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND — $150,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Action Network Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationThe Ohio University Foundation — $10,000 · EducationOhio Citizen Advocates for Addiction Recovery — $60,000 · HealthREACHING EVERYONE IN DISTRESS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthOHIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementOhio Governor's Residence and Office Foundation — $25,000 · Community ImprovementCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$5,455,350Public Benefit$550,000Human Services$175,000Education$160,000Health$135,000Community Improvement$60,000Arts & Culture$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY OHIO INC — $100,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative — $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCAPITOL SQUARE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetOhio Citizen Advocates for Addiction Recovery — $60,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetREACHING EVERYONE IN DISTRESS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetSTATE LEGISLATIVE LEADERS FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOHIO LAW & LIBERTY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER COLUMBUS CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

55 Green MeadowsPharmaceutical Resear…
55 Green MeadowsOH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 55 Green Meadows · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Empowering Ohio's Economy Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Empowering Ohio's Economy Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Empowering Ohio's Economy Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

    Source object · view filing

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