How much did EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC grant in FY2020?

EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC reported 4 grants totaling $1,610,350 in its FY2020 IRS filing.

Where is EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC based?

EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC is based in OH.

EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

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

Grants

Communities

$1.0M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 84% of EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

educationalollcolumbusaudienceseducatingpoliciesfree

2019

servesgovernor's residenceresidence officeoffice educateeducate uniqueunique historyhistory connection

2020

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2020 · 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

States reached

$61k

Total assets

Largest grants

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

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% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.4M · 7 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 +48% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.4M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

+48%

Still filing today

43%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

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

CS
CAPITOL SQUARE FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $300k · revenue +609%
RO
RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND
2× · 2018–2019 · $150k · revenue +83%
OC
OHIO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE RESEARCH F
2× · 2017–2018 · $35k · revenue +1827%

Funded once

SS
STATE SOLUTIONS INC
one grant, 2018 · $525k · revenue -3%
TP
TWO PATHS AMERICA
one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue -100%
CG
COALITION GROWTH OPPORTUNITY
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.

Ohio State University Foundation

The Ohio State University Foundation is The Ohio State University's primary fundraising and gift-receiving organization. Its purpose is to advance the mission of Ohio State by pursuing and securing private support to benefit Ohio State…

Education

Ohio State Innovation Foundation

Ohio state innovation foundation ("osif") is a not-for-profit ohio corporation formed to manage intellectual property developed at or created by the ohio state university ("osu") and to facilitate the commercialization of such intellectual…

Education

Ohioans for Redistricting Reform

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

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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

Educate Ohio Action Fund

To educate, equip and engage citizens to take action on important economic and legslative issues impacting the educational community in Ohio.

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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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Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee

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Ohio Growth Partnership

To promote the common good and general welfare of ohioans.

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Ohioans for Raising the Wage

Statewide ballot issue committee

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Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom

Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, Inc. is a coalition of statewide reproductive heal, rights, and justice organizations working to secure abortion access and protect reproductive freedom in Ohio.

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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

Invest in Ohio

To educate the public on policy issues.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Ashland University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

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

Other$6,455,350Public Benefit$550,000Health$185,000Human Services$175,000Education$160,000Community Improvement$110,000Arts & Culture$20,000

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

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 MeadowsOH22.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organisation 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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: REACHING EVERYONE IN DISTRESS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~27 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 843475392 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on REACHING EVERYONE IN DISTRESS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 27 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 73% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

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

Find your warmest path to Empowering Ohio's Economy Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

More from the funding graph

EMPOWERING OHIO'S ECONOMY INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

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

More from the funding graph