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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.

$5.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$17MEmployment$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.1MCivil Rights$737kRecreation & Sports$584kPublic Benefit$432kSocial Science$85kHealth$72kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 55 grants below total $5,015,370, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,210,066 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $194,696 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $955k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $397k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
$20,700
Median grant
3
States reached
$236M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREAT LAKE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & PRACTICE: $10k → 11%KIDS VOTING USA: $15k → 14%BRUNSWICK EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $21k → 7%LAKOTA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $12k → 9%GROVEPORT MADISON LOCAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $26k → 9%PAINESVILLE CITY TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $24k → 9%HUBER HEIGHTS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $27k → 10%WOOSTER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $17k → 10%HAMILTON CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $16k → 12%MT VERNON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 12%FIELD LOCAL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $31k → 12%LORAIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $41k → 13%CANTON PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $212k → 13%DAYTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $19k → 14%WARREN LOCAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $21k → 15%SOUTHEAST LOCAL TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $24k → 16%LABRAE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION-CUYAHOGA: $18k → 16%SYLVANIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $28k → 18%BOARDMAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $20k → 19%BIG WALNUT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $17k → 5%PICKERINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $23k → 9%WILLOUGHBY EASTLAKE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $45k → 9%FREDERICKTOWN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $22k → 12%SHEFFIELD-SHEFFIELD LAKE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $13k → 13%OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION POLITICAL CONTRIBUTING ENTITY: $2.5M → 15%NILES EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $25k → 16%PARMA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $13k → 17%LIBERTY ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL EMPLOYEES: $12k → 19%MENTOR TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $46k → 9%TWINSBURG EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $24k → 13%OHIOANS UNITED FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION: $110k → 15%GIRARD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 16%POLICY MATTERS OHIO: $30k → 17%THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 19%MENTOR CLASSIFIED EMPLOYEES: $32k → 9%OHIO COALITION FOR EQUITY AND ADEQUACY OF SCHOOL FUNDING: $25k → 15%HOWLAND CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $13k → 16%WILLOUGHBY-EASTLAKE CLASSIFIED PERSONNEL: $10k → 9%EQUALITY OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 15%HUBBARD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $13k → 16%MADISON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%SUPPORT OHIO SCHOOLS: $21k → 15%TRUMBULL COUNTY JOINT VACATIONAL TEACHERS: $21k → 16%DUBLIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $27k → 15%COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $1.2M → 15%WORTHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $38k → 15%WESTERVILLE EDUCATION ASSOCATION: $22k → 15%SOUTH-WESTERN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $75k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 58 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
29

Total granted

$18M
$469k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+14%

Still filing today

47%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M went to new ones.

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

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

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EducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsSocial ScienceFood & NutritionEmploymentOther
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

  • CE
    COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.7M · revenue +26% · 74% of their budget
  • CP
    Canton Professional Educators Association
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +41% · 86% of their budget
  • SE
    SOUTH-WESTERN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $319k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY
    one grant, 2019 · $150k
  • OP
    Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -69%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $48k
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
South Euclid Lyndhurst Teachers Association

Represent all full and part time members that work for the South Euclid Lyndhurst School District, Negotiate rates of pay and working conditions.

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2
Ohio Retirement for Teachers Association Inc

Keep retired teachers informed about retirement benefits and other retiree benefits and monitor changes in retirement benefits and other benefits for retirees.

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3
Pta Ohio Congress

Parent Teacher Association

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4
Connecticut Education 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.

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5
Ohio Association of Elementary School Administrators

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…

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6
Connecticut Education Association

Teacher labor organization that assists public school teachers in Stamford CT with contract administration and negotiations.

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7
Aurora Education Association

Education association

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8
Washoe 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…

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9
Lane Community College Education Association

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)…

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10
Pta Ohio Congress

Eastview Elementary PTA is a non-profit association with the mission to support our elementary school community

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11
Greece Teachers Association

Teachers union

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12
Florida Education Association Putnam Federation of Teachers/United

Labor union for public school employees. contract negotiations and compliance. assure compliance by school district administration with established employment.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oea Educational Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 105 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $9,660,195 · OtherCOLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONOHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION POLITICAL CONTRIBUTING ENTITY: $2,467,560 · OtherOHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION POLITICAL CONTRIBUTING ENTITYCanton Professional Educators Association: $1,729,074 · OtherCanton Professional Educators Association+89 more: $6,236,096 · Other+89 moreOEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationLEAD OHIO: $170,000 · EducationGreat Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice: $70,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationOHIO VOICE: $130,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $15,000 · Public BenefitEDUCATION TAX POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund: $100,000 · Civil RightsEquality Ohio Education Fund: $30,000 · Civil RightsPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $85,000 · Social ScienceTHE OHIO LEGISLATIVE BLACK CAUCUS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCLARK SHAWNEE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $2,400 · Employment
Other$20,092,925Education$1,000,000Public Benefit$150,000Civil Rights$130,000Social Science$85,000Human Services$12,500Food & Nutrition$5,000Employment$2,400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $9,660,195 over 9y, 74% of budgetCanton Professional Educators Association: $1,729,074 over 9y, 86% of budgetOEA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetSOUTH-WESTERN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $318,584 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetHilliard Education Association: $289,465 over 7y, 50% of budgetGroveport Madison Local Ed Assoc: $223,383 over 9y, 10% of budgetMENTOR TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $215,525 over 6y, 67% of budgetWILLOUGHBY-EASTLAKE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $176,201 over 7y, 39% of budgetLEAD OHIO: $170,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetLORAIN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $169,802 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetWORTHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $168,844 over 7y, 26% of budgetDayton Education Assn: $160,431 over 5y, 37% of budgetWesterville Education Association: $146,288 over 6y, 17% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $130,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHAMILTON CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $93,071 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $85,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPARMA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $80,727 over 5y, 13% of budgetGreat Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice: $70,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetYOUNGSTOWN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $66,932 over 5y, 39% of budgetProgressohio org: $55,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetLAKOTA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $53,890 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetInnovation Ohio: $50,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetLAKEWOOD TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: $47,793 over 4y, 16% of budgetDublin Educators Association: $47,562 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPICKERINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $35,614 over 2y, 13% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOLENTANGY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION: $15,687 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGAHANNA JEFFERSON EDUCATION ASSOC: $13,312 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetVALUES-IN-ACTION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION TAX POLICY INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

The George Gund Found…Ohio Federation of Te…The Cleveland Foundat…Communications Worker…National Education As…Central OeaneaThe Center for Commun…The Raymond John Wean…The Joyce FoundationWellspring Philanthro…New Venture FundAmalgamated Charitabl…
The George Gund FoundationOH18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Education Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Education Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    5report 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 105 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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