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Ohio Association of Public School Employees (Oapse)/Afscme Local 4 at a glance

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Ohio Association of Public School Employees (Oapse)/Afscme Local 4

Oapse is a public sector labor union.

$439k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$399k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.4MCivil Rights$531kEmployment$215kSocial Science$40kEducation$35kPublic Benefit$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $424,246, the rows itemized in this filing. The $438,745 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,499 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $399k
$399,246
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PCE$399,246
EDUCATION OHIO ACTION FUND$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AFSCME Fallen Heroes Fund -Hurricane Re1ief: $11k → 14%AFSCME Council 61 - Iowa: $20k → 10%ONE GEORGIA: $20k → 13%Columbus Urban League - NUL Conference Sponsorship: $10k → 15%AFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND: $6k → 14%OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PCE: $387k → 15%A PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $8k → 14%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $283k → 15%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $100k → 15%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $70k → 15%innovations ohio: $65k → 15%INNOVATIONS OHIO: $55k → 15%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $25k → 15%EDUCATION OHIO ACTION FUND: $25k → 15%INNOVATION OHIO: $25k → 15%INNOVATIONS OHIO: $25k → 15%INNOVATIONS OHIO: $25k → 15%AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $25k → 15%POLICY MATTERS OHIO: $25k → 15%POLICY MATTERS OHIO: $15k → 15%LEAD Ohio: $10k → 15%OAPSEAFSCME Turnaround Ohio PCE: $888k → 15%OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PCE: $669k → 15%OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PCE: $435k → 15%OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PCE: $399k → 15%OAPSEAFSCME Turnaround Ohio PCE: $370k → 15%OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PCE: $280k → 15%OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PAC: $20k → 15%AMERICA VOTES: $20k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 5 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$4.2M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+66%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterSocial ScienceEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OT
    OAPSEAFSCME Turnaround Ohio PCE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.4M
  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO
    5× · 2018–2023 · $503k · revenue 0%
  • IO
    Innovation Ohio
    5× · 2017–2021 · $195k · revenue -94% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • OT
    OAPSEAFSCME TURNAROUND OHIO PAC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AV
    America Votes
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • AC
    AFSCME Council 61 - Iowa
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Ohio Labor Council Afl-Cio

To organize all workers for the econcomic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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2
Cincinnati Afl-Cio Labor Council

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.

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3
University of Michigan

To represent and advocate for its member physicians.

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4
Ohioans for Raising the Wage

Statewide ballot issue committee

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5
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations

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.

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6
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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7
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
8
Ohio Bankers League

Provide comprehensive services that benefit the financial institution industry in ohio.

Community Improvement
9
Ohio Business Roundtable

To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.

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10
Michigan State Afl-Cio

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…

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11
Ohio Federation of Teachers

Represent and advocate for our membership on a statewide level.

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12
Indiana State Afl-Cio

To organize all workers for the economic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Federation of Labor Ohio Afl-Cio; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OAPSEAFSCME Turnaround Ohio PCE: $3,426,523 · OtherOAPSEAFSCME Turnaround Ohio PCEAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $503,000 · OtherAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIOInnovation Ohio: $195,000 · Other+6 more: $115,000 · OtherPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $40,000 · Social ScienceAFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND: $17,000 · Public Safety & DisasterLEAD OHIO: $10,000 · EducationA PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $7,650 · Civil Rights
Other$4,239,523Social Science$40,000Public Safety & Disaster$17,000Education$10,000Civil Rights$7,650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $503,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetInnovation Ohio: $195,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES COUNICL 13 AFSCME: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFSCME FALLEN HEROES FUND: $17,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLEAD OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $7,650 over 1y, 3.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Federation o…Ohio Federation of Te…Communications Worker…
American Federation of State County and Municipal EmployeesDC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Ohio Federation of Teachers · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ohio Association of Public School Employees (Oapse)/Afscme Local 4 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Association of Public School Employees (Oapse)/Afscme Local 4. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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