· Public charity
Ohio Federation of Teachers
Represent and advocate for our membership on a statewide level.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $138,333 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $321,063 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $182,730 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–50k3 grants · $63k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEARNING LIGHTHOUSE | $75,000 |
| EDUCATORS THRIVING LLC | $38,333 |
| POLICY MATTERS OHIO | $15,000 |
| OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 92% 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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- OPOhio Progressive Collaborative4× · 2021–2024 · $468k · revenue -59%
- ETEDUCATORS THRIVING LLC2× · 2024–2025 · $58k
- PMPOLICY MATTERS OHIO4× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue -33%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIOone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- LOLEAD OHIOgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +88%
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.
Statewide ballot issue committee
Our mission is to foster fair and substantive debates that encourage participation in our democracy, and our vision is of a stronger Ohio, with well informed voters and highly qualified public servants, candidates, and elected officials.
Statewide ballot issue committee.
Local ballot issue committee
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To organize all workers for the econcomic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.
To convene a high capacity group of individual and institutional donors that leverages resources to achieve policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio, and to promote education through distributions to exempt educational…
To provide public service journalism to people in ohio.
Educate and train election officials and others involved in the administration and conduct of elections within the state of ohio.
The Ohio Womens Alliance is a statewide membership of grassroots leaders, organizers, community builders and activists creating a better Ohio for all through a reproductive justice lens.
Research organization focuses on eliminating and preventing gerrymandering in the State of Ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio Organizing Collaborative and the most unlike its peers is Learning Lighthouse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 Ohio Progressive Collaborative ↗
- Who funds LEARNING LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds POLICY MATTERS OHIO ↗
- Who funds OHIO VOICE ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO ↗
- Who funds Innovation Ohio ↗
- Who funds LEAD OHIO ↗
- Who funds OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION ↗
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: Ohio Education Association · Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · Ohio Association of Public School Employees (Oapse)/Afscme Local 4 · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Sixteen Thirty Fund
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 Federation of Teachers 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.