· Public charity
Ohio Education Association
Oea's mission is to lead the way for the continuous improvement of public education while advocating for our members and the students we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 55 grants below total $5,015,370 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,210,066 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $194,696 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
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $955k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $397k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION POLITICAL CONTRIBUTING ENTITY | $2,467,560 |
| COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $1,159,194 |
| CANTON PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $211,510 |
| OHIOANS UNITED FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION | $110,000 |
| SOUTH-WESTERN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $75,299 |
| MENTOR TEACHERS ASSOCIATION | $46,247 |
| WILLOUGHBY EASTLAKE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION | $44,593 |
| LORAIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $41,377 |
| WORTHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $37,633 |
| MENTOR CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES | $31,559 |
| FIELD LOCAL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION | $31,110 |
| POLICY MATTERS OHIO | $30,000 |
| SYLVANIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $28,257 |
| DUBLIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $27,300 |
| HUBER HEIGHTS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $26,836 |
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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- CECOLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +26% · 74% of their budget
- CPCanton Professional Educators Association9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +41% · 86% of their budget
- SESOUTH-WESTERN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $319k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- TOTHE OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTYone grant, 2019 · $150k
- OPOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fundone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -69%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $48k
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.
Represent all full and part time members that work for the South Euclid Lyndhurst School District, Negotiate rates of pay and working conditions.
Keep retired teachers informed about retirement benefits and other retiree benefits and monitor changes in retirement benefits and other benefits for retirees.
Parent Teacher Association
The objective of this organization is to promote the best interest in education to improve the promotional status of its members and to cooperate with the state and national associations for the purpose of mutual professional advancement.
To bring about a more complete understanding of the objectives of elementary and middle-level school administrators; to work for the continuous improvement of ohio's pre-kindergarten, elementary and middle-level schools; to promote…
Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.
Education association
The Washoe Education Association works to protect rights and due process for education professionals serving the Washoe County School District.(Continued on Schedule O)We believe that the best possible working conditions are the best…
Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…
Eastview Elementary PTA is a non-profit association with the mission to support our elementary school community
Teachers union
Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oea Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Values-in-Action Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 105 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 COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Canton Professional Educators Association ↗
- Who funds OEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH-WESTERN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Hilliard Education Association ↗
- Who funds Groveport Madison Local Ed Assoc ↗
- Who funds MENTOR TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILLOUGHBY-EASTLAKE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEAD OHIO ↗
- Who funds LORAIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WORTHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Dayton Education Assn ↗
- Who funds Westerville Education Association ↗
- Who funds OHIO VOICE ↗
- Who funds Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POLICY MATTERS OHIO ↗
- Who funds PARMA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice ↗
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: The George Gund Foundation · Ohio Federation of Teachers · The Cleveland Foundation · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · National Education Association of the United States · Central Oeanea · The Center for Community Solutions · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Education Association 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.