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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%OHIO MAYORS ALLIANCE: $5k → 15%LEAD OHIO: $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
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 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.

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Ohioans for Redistricting Reform

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

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2
Opportunity City Political Action Committee

Local ballot issue committee

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3
Committee for Our Cleveland Metroparks

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

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4
Ohio Coalition On Black Civic Participation

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

Philanthropy
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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.

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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…

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Ohio Business Leadership Network
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Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee.

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9
Cincinnati Action for Housing Now

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

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio Mayors Alliance; 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 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. 8 of the 9 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Environmental Council Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 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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