· Public charity
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 organizations and projects.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ohio Organizing Collaborative | $225,000 |
| OCA Education Fund | $150,000 |
| Freedom ROC | $50,000 |
| Red Wine & Blue | $50,000 |
| Innovation Ohio Education Fund | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 73% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TOTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE7× · 2018–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +53% · 26% of their budget
- FRFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE5× · 2021–2025 · $915k · revenue ×15 · 68% of their budget
- RWRED WINE & BLUE3× · 2022–2025 · $824k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- CFCtr for Race Rel Econ Democracyone grant, 2020 · $160k
- TOTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGNgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue ×17
- OPOhio Progressive Collaborativeone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -78%
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
Statewide ballot issue committee.
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.
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.
Local 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.
Citizens Not Politicians is an Ohio ballot initiative campaign advocating for a constitutional amendment that would create a new process for drawing voting districts.
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.
The purpose of the Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund is to build capacity for women, femmes, and gender-expansive folksparticularly Black womento determine the lives they want for themselves, their families, and their communities through…
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…
Ballot issue political action committee in the State of Ohio to advocate for the passage of a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio Organizing Collaborative and the most unlike its peers is Isaiah. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Innovation Ohio Education Fund ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds RED WINE & BLUE ↗
- Who funds OHIO CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VOICE ↗
- Who funds LEAD OHIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds RURALORGANIZINGORG ↗
- Who funds Ohio Progressive Collaborative ↗
- Who funds Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH ↗
- Who funds FOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ISAIAH ↗
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: The George Gund Foundation · Ohio Voice · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · The Raymond John Wean Foundation · Clean and Prosperous America · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Ohio Progressive Collaborative · Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers · Ohio State Bar Foundation
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 Progressive Collaborative Education 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.
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.
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