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· Public charity

Ohio Progressive Collaborative

To convene a high capacity group of donors that strategically leverage resources to achieve political and policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio by strengthening infrastructure.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Public Benefit$11MCivil Rights$2.2MEmployment$1.4MEducation$658kEnvironment$650kCommunity Improvement$550kCrime & Legal$500kSocial Science$65k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Red Wine and Blue$50,000
Ohio Citizen Action$50,000
Freedom BLOC$50,000
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CFFE PAC: $1.2M → 14%A Stronger Ohio: $405k → 12%Black Lead Organizing Collaborative: $150k → 13%Citizens Not Politicians: $1.5M → 15%Red Wine and Blue: $150k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $650k → 19%Forward Action Fund: $1.7M → 7%BlackPAC: $745k → 14%Freedom BLOC: $60k → 13%One Person One Vote: $750k → 15%Red Wine and Blue: $150k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $600k → 19%League of Conservation Ohio: $650k → 14%Freedom BLOC: $50k → 13%Ohioans for Reproductive Rights: $705k → 15%Red Wine and Blue: $125k → 17%Ohio Organizing Campaign: $500k → 19%Black Progressive Action: $600k → 14%Innovation Ohio: $579k → 15%Red Wine and Blue: $100k → 17%Ohioans for Justice and Integrity: $500k → 15%Red Wine and Blue: $75k → 17%Citizens Not Politicians: $500k → 15%Red Wine and Blue: $50k → 17%Ohioans for Judicial Integrity: $411k → 15%Ohio Citizen Action: $1.3M → 17%For Our Future - Ohio: $380k → 15%Ohio Citizen Action: $300k → 17%Innovation Ohio: $250k → 15%Ohio Citizen Action: $85k → 17%LEAD Ohio: $200k → 15%Ohio Citizen Action: $50k → 17%Innovation Ohio: $195k → 15%Rural Organizingorg: $165k → 15%Innovation Ohio: $145k → 15%LEAD Ohio: $133k → 15%LEAD Ohio: $125k → 15%For Our Future - Ohio: $120k → 15%Innovation Ohio: $112k → 15%Battleground Research: $100k → 15%LEAD Ohio: $100k → 15%LEAD Ohio: $100k → 15%Innovation Ohio: $86k → 15%Rural Organizingorg: $75k → 15%Battleground Research: $65k → 15%Rural Organizingorg: $60k → 15%Ohioans for Redistricting Reform: $50k → 15%For Our Future - Ohio: $50k → 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.6M · 12 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +199% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$9.6M
$7.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+199%
0%

Still filing today

92%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • OC
    OHIO CITIZEN ACTION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +199% · 38% of their budget
  • TO
    THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +59%
  • LO
    LEAD OHIO
    5× · 2018–2022 · $658k · revenue +250% · 60% of their budget

Funded once

  • FA
    FORWARD ACTION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $1.7M · revenue 0%
  • FF
    FAMILY FRIENDLY ACTION PAC
    one grant, 2024 · $1.2M
  • OP
    One Person One Vote
    one grant, 2023 · $750k
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
Opportunity City Political Action Committee

Local ballot issue committee

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2
Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee.

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3
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom Pac

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

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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
5
Ohioans for Raising the Wage

Statewide ballot issue committee

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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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7
Ohio Progressive Collaborative

To convene a high capacity group of donors that strategically leverage resources to achieve political and policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio by strengthening infrastructure.

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8
Protect Women Ohio Action Inc

Protect Women Ohio Action is a Section 501(c)(4) social welfare organization and registered ballot committee in the State of Ohio engaged in advocacy activities related to the "Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and…

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9
Committee for Our Cleveland Metroparks

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

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10
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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11
Moving Central Ohio Forward

Ballot issue political action committee created to advocate for the passage of a public transportation levy.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Citizen Action; the most unlike its peers is One Person One Vote. 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

18 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. 18 of the 24 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Citizens Not Politicians: $2,000,000 · OtherCitizens Not PoliticiansOHIO CITIZEN ACTION: $1,710,000 · OtherOHIO CITIZEN ACTIONInnovation Ohio: $1,416,500 · OtherInnovation OhioFAMILY FRIENDLY ACTION PAC: $1,230,000 · OtherFAMILY FRIENDLY ACTION PACOne Person One Vote: $750,000 · OtherOne Person One VoteBlackPAC: $745,000 · OtherBlackPACOhioans United for Reproductive Rights: $705,050 · OtherOhioans United for Reproductive RightsBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION: $600,000 · OtherBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITIONFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $550,000 · OtherOhioans for Justice and Integrity: $500,000 · OtherOhioans for Judicial Integrity: $411,000 · OtherA Stronger Ohio: $405,000 · Other+2 more: $215,000 · OtherFORWARD ACTION FUND: $1,725,000 · Civil RightsFORWARD ACTION FUNDLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $650,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VO…RED WINE & BLUE: $650,000 · Civil RightsRED WINE & BLUETHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $520,000 · Civil RightsTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPA…RURALORGANIZINGORG: $300,000 · Civil RightsRURALORGANIZINGORG+1 more: $85,000 · Civil RightsTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $1,250,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO O…BLACK LEADERSHIP ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $295,000 · Public BenefitBLACK LEAD…LEAD OHIO: $658,000 · EducationAmerica Votes: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$11,237,550Civil Rights$3,930,000Public Benefit$1,545,000Education$658,000Community Improvement$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCitizens Not Politicians: $2,000,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetFORWARD ACTION FUND: $1,725,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOHIO CITIZEN ACTION: $1,710,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetInnovation Ohio: $1,416,500 over 7y, 74% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $1,250,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetOne Person One Vote: $750,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOhioans United for Reproductive Rights: $705,050 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLEAD OHIO: $658,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $650,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRED WINE & BLUE: $650,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetBLACK PROGRESSIVE ACTION COALITION: $600,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE ACTION FUND: $550,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $520,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetRURALORGANIZINGORG: $300,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetBLACK LEADERSHIP ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $295,000 over 4y, 52% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $85,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetOhioans for Redistricting Reform: $50,000 over 1y, 100% 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.

Sixteen Thirty FundAmerica VotesTides FoundationNorth FundGlobal Impact Social …Open Society Action F…Hopewell FundOhio Progressive Coll…NEO Philanthropy Acti…Clean and Prosperous …American Federation o…Tides Advocacy
Sixteen Thirty FundDC33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · Tides Foundation · North Fund · Global Impact Social Welfare Fund · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Hopewell Fund · Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Clean and Prosperous America · American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees · Tides Advocacy

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

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ohio Progressive Collaborative?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio Progressive Collaborative 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 24 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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