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· 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.

$505k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$225k
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$13MCivil Rights$495kEducation$40kEnvironment$30kEmployment$30k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $475k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 11%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ISAIAH: $25k → 14%The Tides Foundation: $1.5M → 10%For Our Future Education Fund: $50k → 14%Freedom ROC: $650k → 13%Innovation Ohio Education Fund: $300k → 15%Red Wine and Blue: $624k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $2.6M → 19%Ctr for Race Rel Econ Democracy: $160k → 9%The Tides Foundation: $1.5M → 10%Freedom ROC: $50k → 13%Innovation Ohio Education Fund: $290k → 15%Red Wine & Blue: $150k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $370k → 19%Freedom BLOC: $130k → 13%Innovation Ohio Education Fund: $199k → 15%Red Wine & Blue: $50k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $270k → 19%Freedom ROC: $25k → 13%Innovation Ohio Education Fund: $173k → 15%OCA Education Fund: $25k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $225k → 19%Freedom BLOC: $60k → 13%Innovation Ohio Education Fund: $150k → 15%ACLU Ohio Foundation: $200k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $155k → 19%Rural Organizing Education Fund: $100k → 15%ACLU Ohio Foundation: $100k → 17%Ohio Organizing Campaign: $125k → 19%Ohio Progressive Collaborative: $100k → 15%Greater Cleve Neighborhood Ctr Ass: $69k → 17%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $100k → 19%LEAD Ohio Foundation: $100k → 15%Ohio Organizing Collaborative: $40k → 19%LEAD Ohio Foundation: $75k → 15%Ohio VoiceCOHHIO: $75k → 15%Innovation Ohio Education Fund: $40k → 15%Ohio VoiceCOHHIO: $40k → 15%OH Coalition on Black Civic Part: $35k → 15%Innovation Ohio Education Fund: $30k → 15%RO Education Fund: $20k → 15%NAACP OSC: $15k → 15%Ohio Environmental Council: $30k → 15%CAIR - Ohio: $50k → 15%OCA Education Fund: $300k → 15%OCA Education Fund: $150k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 9 repeat orgs$659k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$8.0M
$659k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsPublic BenefitEducationEnvironmentReligionCommunity 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

  • TO
    THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE
    7× · 2018–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +53% · 26% of their budget
  • FR
    FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $915k · revenue ×15 · 68% of their budget
  • RW
    RED WINE & BLUE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $824k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CF
    Ctr for Race Rel Econ Democracy
    one grant, 2020 · $160k
  • TO
    THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGNgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue ×17
  • OP
    Ohio Progressive Collaborative
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -78%
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
Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee.

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3
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
4
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
5
Opportunity City Political Action Committee

Local ballot issue committee

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6
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
7
Citizens Not Politicians

Citizens Not Politicians is an Ohio ballot initiative campaign advocating for a constitutional amendment that would create a new process for drawing voting districts.

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8
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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9
Ohio Womens Alliance Action Fund

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…

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10
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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11
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohio Organizing Collaborative; 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.
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 20 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)
7
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

TIDES FOUNDATION: $4,800,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION+1 more: $35,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $3,759,500 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVEOHIO CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $475,000 · Public BenefitOHIO CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUNDOHIO VOICE: $265,000 · Public BenefitOHIO VOICELEAD OHIO FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Public BenefitRED WINE & BLUE: $823,700 · Civil RightsRED WINE & B…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIV…THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $125,000 · Civil RightsTHE OHIO ORG…RURALORGANIZINGORG: $120,000 · Civil RightsRURALORGANIZ…FOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $50,000 · Civil RightsFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $915,000 · OtherFREEDOM RI…Ctr for Race Rel Econ Democracy: $160,000 · OtherCtr for Ra…Ohio Progressive Collaborative: $100,000 · OtherOhio Progr…+1 more: $15,000 · OtherInnovation Ohio Education Fund: $1,181,000 · EducationInnovatio…Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $69,145 · Community ImprovementTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $30,000 · EnvironmentISAIAH: $25,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$4,835,000Public Benefit$4,674,500Civil Rights$1,468,700Other$1,190,000Education$1,181,000Community Improvement$69,145Environment$30,000Religion$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $4,800,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $3,759,500 over 7y, 26% of budgetInnovation Ohio Education Fund: $1,181,000 over 7y, 65% of budgetFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $915,000 over 5y, 68% of budgetRED WINE & BLUE: $823,700 over 3y, 16% of budgetOHIO CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $475,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetOHIO VOICE: $265,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetLEAD OHIO FOUNDATION: $175,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $125,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetRURALORGANIZINGORG: $120,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOhio Progressive Collaborative: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFOR OUR FUTURE EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $35,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetISAIAH: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The George Gund Found…Ohio VoiceNew Venture FundTides FoundationThe Cleveland Foundat…The Raymond John Wean…Clean and Prosperous …Amalgamated Charitabl…Columbus FoundationOhio Progressive Coll…Greater Cleveland Nei…Ohio State Bar Founda…
The George Gund FoundationOH23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    3report 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, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education 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 20 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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