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Ohio Council of Community Schools

OHIO COUNCIL OF COMMUNITY SCHOOLS's mission is to be a student-centered organization that advocates the excellence in education by advancing educational choice, achieving excellence through leadership and innovation, and ensuring community schools are legally, financially and academically sound.

$591k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$265k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$5.7MYouth Development$59k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $524,471 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $590,985 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,514 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 · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$24,164
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY$265,000
OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY$150,000
OHIO COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$28,223
ARTS & COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY$24,164
CANTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$21,495
AKRON PREPARATORY ACADEMY$19,258
STEAM ACADEMY OF WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS$16,331
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 92% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY: $150k → 6%MIDDLETOWN PREPARATORY AND FITNESS ACADEMY: $50k → 12%STARK HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 13%TROTWOOD PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $50k → 14%SPRINGFIELD PREP AND FITNESS ACADEMY: $40k → 15%VALOR ACADEMY OF OHIO: $117k → 15%FOUNDATION ACADEMY OF MANSFIELD: $44k → 15%MOUNT HEALTHY PREP AND FITNESS ACADEMY: $45k → 16%CLEVELAND ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE ACADEMY: $43k → 17%ILEAD SPRING MEADOWS: $47k → 18%SOUTH SIDE ACADEMY: $50k → 19%OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY: $150k → 6%CANTON HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 13%TROTWOOD PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $40k → 14%OHIO CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY: $60k → 15%SOUTH SCIOTO ACADEMY: $45k → 15%CLAY AVENUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $47k → 18%RIVERSIDE ACADEMY: $38k → 16%CLEVELAND ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE ACADEMY: $39k → 17%OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY: $150k → 16%OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY: $150k → 15%OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY: $150k → 16%COLUMBUS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $50k → 15%OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY: $150k → 16%NORTHEAST OHIO COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL: $75k → 17%SUNBRIDGE SCHOOLS: $100k → 18%NORTHLAND PREP AND FITNESS ACADEMY: $45k → 15%WESTERN TOLEDO PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $100k → 18%TOLEDO PREPARATORY AND FITNESS ACADEMY: $50k → 18%WHITEHALL PREPARATORY AND FITNESS ACADEMY: $50k → 15%WHITEHALL PREPARATORY AND FITNESS ACADEMY: $40k → 15%OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY: $283k → 18%OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY: $150k → 15%OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY: $265k → 18%OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY: $245k → 18%PERFORMANCE ACADEMY OF EASTLAND: $50k → 15%OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY: $225k → 18%COLUMBUS ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY: $50k → 15%OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY: $225k → 18%ARTS & COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $46k → 15%OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY: $150k → 18%ARTS AND COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $45k → 15%GLOBAL AMBASSADORS LANGUAGE: $49k → 17%OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY: $149k → 18%PERFORMANCE ACADEMY OF EASTLAND: $40k → 15%WILDWOOD ENVIRONMENTAL ACADEMY: $50k → 18%ARTS & COLLEGE PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $39k → 15%COLUMBUS PERFORMANCE ACADEMY: $40k → 15%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.2M · 36 repeat orgs$552k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
14

Total granted

$5.2M
$531k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

97%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • OV
    OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +114%
  • OC
    OHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +79%
  • AA
    Arts and College Preparatory Academy
    8× · 2017–2025 · $237k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • VA
    VALOR ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $117k · revenue +168%
  • WT
    WESTERN TOLEDO PREPARATORY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +126%
  • OC
    OHIO CONSTRUCTION ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +95%

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
North Columbus Preparatory Academy

North Columbus Preparatory Academy is a public, community school. We are our own school district sponsored by the St. Aloysius Orphanage (Charter School Specialists) which provides oversight and enforces academic, fiscal, and legal…

Education
2
South Columbus Preparatory Academy

We care about every student and are committed to preparing children for lifelong success. Our Individualized Learning Plans start with a unique baseline for each student and analyze performance data at regular, short intervals. Teachers…

Education
3
Cincinnati Technology Academy

Cincinnati technology academy's mission is to serve the educational needs of students from kindergarden through grade twelve.

Education
4
Horizon Science Academy Toledo

Horizon Science Academy Toledo is a public charter school that serving grades K through 12 for children in Toledo, OH. The school is a college prep school focusing on math, science and technology education.

Education
5
Horizon Science Academy Springfield

Horizon Science Academy Springfield is a public charter school that serving grades K through 8 for children in Cleveland, OH. The school is a college prep school focusing on math, science and technology education.

Education
6
Horizon Educational Services Inc

Horizon Science Academy Cleveland High School is a public charter school that serving grades 9-12 for children in Cleveland, OH. The school is a college prep school focusing on math, science and technology education.

Education
7
Akrotech High School

Providing educational services to Grades 9-12 students.

Education
8
Liberty High School

Liberty High School is a public charter school in a renovated facility that uses innovative academic strategies to engage students in the learning process. We are committed to meeting students where they are and then helping them work at…

Education
9
Cleveland Entrepreneurship Prep

The Prep Schools mission is to seek to provide a high quality, academically rigorous education for the college bound scholar. We empower our scholars to think critically, assume social responsibility, and serve for themselves and the…

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10
Southfield Preparatory Academy

We care about every student and are committed to preparing children for lifelong success. Our Individualized Learning with a unique baseline for each student and analyze performance data at regular, short intervals. Teachers and staff…

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11
East Preparatory Academy

East Preparatory Academy, serving grades K-8, is dedicated to improving the lives of its students by providing authentic learning experiences in a collaborative, nurturing environment that will build a foundation for student success in…

Education
12
Horizon Science Academy of Lorain

Horizon Science Academy of Lorain is public charter school that serving grades K through 12 for children in Cleveland, OH. The school is a college prep school focusing on math, science and technology education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Arts and Social Science Academy and the most unlike its peers is Ilead Spring Meadows. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr17%70%10–20yr15%22%20–35yr16%0%35–55yr20%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%2%<5yr13%2%5–10yr17%35%10–20yr15%61%20–35yr16%0%35–55yr20%0%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/51
the rest of the field
13%
3,817/29,869

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
38/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY — $1,542,136 · EducationOHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMYOHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY INC — $1,050,000 · EducationOHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY INCArts and College Preparatory Academy — $237,417 · Education+43 more — $2,608,820 · Education+43 moreILEAD SPRING MEADOWS — $120,608 · OtherVALOR ACADEMY INC — $116,554 · OtherClay Avenue Community School — $77,318 · OtherNORTHPOINTE ACADEMY — $25,000 · Other+1 more — $5,032 · Other
Education$5,438,373Other$344,512

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOHIO VIRTUAL ACADEMY — $1,542,136 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO CONNECTIONS ACADEMY INC — $1,050,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetArts and College Preparatory Academy — $237,417 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetILEAD SPRING MEADOWS — $120,608 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetGLOBAL LANGUAGE AMBASSADORS ACADEMY — $118,768 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetVALOR ACADEMY INC — $116,554 over 1y, 23% of budgetSunbridge Schools — $113,059 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCLEVELAND ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE ACADEMY — $112,595 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSTEAM ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $108,792 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $101,670 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $101,072 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWILDWOOD ENVIRONMENTAL ACADEMY — $72,608 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRAL ACADEMY OF OHIO — $71,341 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFOUNDATION ACADEMY INCORPORATED — $70,247 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOLUMBUS ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY — $62,018 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMONTGOMERY PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $60,912 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetOHIO CONSTRUCTION ACADEMY — $59,772 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSOUTH SIDE ACADEMY INC — $56,845 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCANTON HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL — $56,845 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNEXUS ACADEMY OF CLEVELAND — $49,922 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSTARK HIGH SCHOOL INC — $49,586 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSKYWAY CAREER PREP HIGH SCHOOL — $42,261 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCASCADE CARRER PREP HIGH SCHOOL — $41,873 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAKRON PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $39,258 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC — $38,421 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY NORTHWEST CAMPUS — $35,696 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOHIO COLLEGIATE ACADEMY — $33,871 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOHIO DIGITAL LEARNING SCHOOL — $32,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CLEVELAND PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $27,488 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDayton SMART Bilingual Academy — $25,348 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNORTHPOINTE ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANTON COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $21,495 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $17,095 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANITIES ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY — $9,904 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPSTONE ACADEMY — $6,845 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAKE ERIE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL — $6,845 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Council of Community Schools 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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