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Ohio Federation of Teachers

Represent and advocate for our membership on a statewide level.

$321k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Public Benefit$558kEducation$148kSocial Science$57kCivil Rights$45kEmployment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $138,333, the rows itemized in this filing. The $321,063 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $182,730 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$38,333
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEARNING LIGHTHOUSE$75,000
EDUCATORS THRIVING LLC$38,333
POLICY MATTERS OHIO$15,000
OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE$10,000
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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%EDUCATORS THRIVING LLC: $38k → 9%OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 13%OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE: $200k → 15%POLICY MATTERS OHIO: $15k → 17%TOLEDO FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: $5k → 18%OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 19%EDUCATORS THRIVING LLC: $19k → 9%OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 15%POLICY MATTERS OHIO: $15k → 17%OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 15%POLICY MATTERS OHIO: $15k → 17%OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE: $68k → 15%POLICY MATTERS OHIO: $12k → 17%JVA CAMPAIGNS LLC: $26k → 15%OHIO AFL-CIO: $20k → 15%JVA CAMPAIGNS LLC: $19k → 15%OHIO DEMOCRATIC PARTY: $15k → 15%OHIO VOICE: $15k → 15%OHIO VOICE: $15k → 15%INNOVATION OHIO: $10k → 15%UHCAN OF OHIO: $10k → 15%INNOVATION OHIO: $10k → 15%UHCAN OF OHIO: $10k → 15%OHIO VOICE: $10k → 15%LEAD OHIO: $10k → 15%OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $5k → 15%LEARNING LIGHTHOUSE: $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.
$732k · 8 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$732k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-33%
+88%

Still filing today

63%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitEducationSocial SciencePhilanthropyOther
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

  • OP
    Ohio Progressive Collaborative
    4× · 2021–2024 · $468k · revenue -59%
  • ET
    EDUCATORS THRIVING LLC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $58k
  • PM
    POLICY MATTERS OHIO
    4× · 2021–2025 · $57k · revenue -33%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • LO
    LEAD OHIOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +88%
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
Ohioans for Raising the Wage

Statewide ballot issue committee

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2
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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3
Ohio Debate Commission Inc

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.

Civil Rights
4
Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee.

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5
Opportunity City Political Action Committee

Local ballot issue committee

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6
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
7
Central Ohio Labor Council Afl-Cio

To organize all workers for the econcomic, moral and social advancement of their condition and status.

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8
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

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…

Civil Rights
9
Ohio Local Informational Intiative Inc

To provide public service journalism to people in ohio.

Arts & Culture
10
Ohio Association of Election Officials

Educate and train election officials and others involved in the administration and conduct of elections within the state of ohio.

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11
Ohio Womens Alliance

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.

Community Improvement
12
Ohioans for Redistricting Reform

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

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio Organizing Collaborative; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ohio Progressive Collaborative: $467,500 · OtherOhio Progressive CollaborativeEDUCATORS THRIVING LLC: $57,500 · OtherEDUCATORS THRIVING LLCJVA CAMPAIGNS LLC: $45,000 · OtherJVA CAMPAIGNS LLC+5 more: $80,076 · Other+5 moreLEARNING LIGHTHOUSE: $75,000 · EducationLEARNING LI…LEAD OHIO: $10,000 · EducationLEAD OHIOOHIO VOICE: $40,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 · Public BenefitPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $57,000 · Social ScienceOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$650,076Education$85,000Public Benefit$65,000Social Science$57,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative: $467,500 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetLEARNING LIGHTHOUSE: $75,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $57,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR OHIO AFL-CIO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInnovation Ohio: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLEAD OHIO: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

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.

Ohio Education Associ…Communications Worker…Ohio Association of P…American Federation o…Sixteen Thirty Fund
Ohio Education AssociationOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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.

    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 14 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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