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Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund

To protect the environment and health of all ohio communities by electing climate champions, holding public officials accountable, and advancing environmental justice policies.

$570k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
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 FY20192025.

Public Benefit$664kEnvironment$56kHealth$23kEducation$18k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$300,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$947k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOVING CENTRAL OHIO FORWARD$300,000
CITIZENS NOT POLITICIANS$270,000
02The need
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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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EVANGELICAL ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $36k → 9%COMMON CAUSE: $20k → 14%MOVING CENTRAL OHIO FORWARD: $300k → 15%CITIZENS NOT POLITICIANS: $270k → 15%PROGRESS OHIO: $23k → 15%LEAD OHIO: $8k → 15%LEAD OHIO: $5k → 15%OHIO MAYORS ALLIANCE: $5k → 15%LEAD OHIO: $5k → 15%CONSERVATION OHIO POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE: $69k → 15%OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $20k → 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 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
Ohioans for Redistricting Reform

Research organization focuses on eliminating and preventing gerrymandering in the State of Ohio.

2
Opportunity City Political Action Committee

Local ballot issue committee

3
Committee for Our Cleveland Metroparks

Local ballot issue political action committee located in the state of Ohio

4
Ohio Coalition On Black Civic Participation

Educating voters on the importance of voting and encouraging them to participate in the electoral process

Philanthropy
5
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights

Ballot issue political action committee in the State of Ohio to advocate for the passage of a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights.

6
League of Women Voters of Ohio

The league of women voters, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and…

7
Ohio Business Leadership Network
8
Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee.

9
Cincinnati Action for Housing Now

Ballot issue political action committee advocating for levy to support the homelessness population in Ohio.

10
Ohio Conservative Restoration Project

Ohio conservative restoration seeks to educate the public about common sense solutions to various public policy issues in the state of ohio, including but not limited to law enforcement and the promotion of law and order.

11
Vision Usa - the Ohio Vision Project Inc
Health
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Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom

Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, Inc. is a coalition of statewide reproductive heal, rights, and justice organizations working to secure abortion access and protect reproductive freedom in Ohio.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio Mayors Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Evangelical Environmental Network. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Moving Central Ohio Forward — $300,000 · OtherMoving Central Ohio ForwardCitizens Not Politicians — $270,000 · OtherCitizens Not PoliticiansCONSERVATION OHIO — $69,000 · OtherCONSERVATION OHIOEvangelical Environmental Network — $36,000 · Other+3 more — $48,000 · Other+3 moreTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $20,000 · EnvironmentLEAD OHIO — $17,500 · Education
Other$723,000Environment$20,000Education$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEvangelical Environmental Network — $36,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetProgressohio org — $23,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEAD OHIO — $17,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Ohio Mayors Alliance — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund 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.

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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your 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
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 9 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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