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Ohio Association of Public School Employees (Oapse)/Afscme Local 4
Oapse is a public sector labor union.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of OHIO ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES (OAPSE)/AFSCME LOCAL 4’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $424,246 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $438,745 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,499 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $250k+1 grant · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PCE | $399,246 |
| EDUCATION OHIO ACTION FUND | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OTOAPSEAFSCME Turnaround Ohio PCE7× · 2018–2024 · $3.4M
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO5× · 2018–2023 · $503k · revenue 0%
- IOInnovation Ohio5× · 2017–2021 · $195k · revenue -94% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- OTOAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PACone grant, 2022 · $20k
- AVAmerica Votesone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ACAFSCME Council 61 - Iowaone grant, 2018 · $20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To organize all workers for the econcomic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
The mission of the afl-cio is to improve the lives of working families, to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.
To represent and advocate for its member physicians.
Statewide ballot issue committee
The organization is a federation of labor unions. its mission is to improve the lives of working families - to bring economic justice to the workplace and social justice to our nation.
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,…
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Consistent with our trade union philosophy and tradition of advocating social and economic justice for all, we also see representing the unemployed, under-employed, and low income people as part of our mission. whether organized or yet to…
Represent and advocate for our membership on a statewide level.
To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio and the most unlike its peers is Afscme Fallen Heroes Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds Innovation Ohio ↗
- Who funds POLICY MATTERS OHIO ↗
- Who funds Educate Ohio Action Fund ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES COUNICL 13 AFSCME ↗
- Who funds AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND ↗
- Who funds LEAD OHIO ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Ohio Federation of Teachers · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc
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 Ohio Association of Public School Employees (Oapse)/Afscme Local 4 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.
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.