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Ohio Voice

Our mission is to support and grow the ecosystem of non-profit, non-partisan organizations doing year-round civic engagement with underrepresented communities in order to improve people's lives.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Public Benefit$4.7MCivil Rights$174kCommunity Improvement$57kEmployment$43kHealth$30kHuman Services$20kEnvironment$20kCrime & Legal$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $387k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE$225,001
HONESTY FOR OHIO EDUCATION$200,000
OHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION$158,332
OHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY$155,000
NORTHEAST OHIO WORKER CENTER$131,464
GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC$100,000
OHIO WOMENS ALLIANCE$96,135
GREATER CLEVELAND NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS ASSOCIATION$91,000
YOUNG LATINO NETWORK$67,166
OHIO UNITY$66,667
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$60,000
GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC$50,000
FAIR ELECTIONS CENTER$48,000
ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION OF OHIO$40,000
CRAZY FAITH MINISTRIES$35,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ASIAN SERVICES IN ACTION INC: $10k → 13%GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 16%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK: $20k → 15%COMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES INC: $20k → 15%NORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $25k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
OK
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 22 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
32

Total granted

$3.5M
$796k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
+31%

Still filing today

86%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $783k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • FR
    FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $510k · revenue +102% · 28% of their budget
  • OW
    Ohio Womens Alliance
    4× · 2020–2024 · $390k · revenue +301% · 26% of their budget
  • OC
    OHIO CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    4× · 2020–2024 · $252k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • RV
    RIVER VALLEY ORGANIZING
    one grant, 2022 · $88k
  • OP
    OHIO PEOPLE'S JUSTICE LEADERS
    one grant, 2022 · $85k
  • EO
    Equality Ohio
    one grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue +13% · 49% of their budget
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
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
3
Ohioans for Redistricting Reform

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

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4
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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5
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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6
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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7
Cleveland Jobs With Justice

To work as a coalition of labor unions, community organzation, and religious community to raise the public awarness of and build campaigns to promote workers rights an social justice issues.

Education
8
Lead Ohio

At lead ohio our goal is to make a difference in communities across ohio by recruiting, training, supporting and empowering progressive leaders in all regions of the state.

Education
9
Ohio Immigrant Alliance

Ohio immigrant alliance is a group of ohio immigrants and citizens working together to protect the dignity and rights of all individuals who choose to make ohio their homeregardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity…

Civil Rights
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation Inc

Aclu of ohio foundation leverages advocacy, litigation, and public education to champion fairness, freedom and justice for all as guaranteed under the constitution and the laws of the u.s.

Civil Rights
11
Ohioans for Raising the Wage

Statewide ballot issue committee

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12
Avanzamos Unidos

The mission of Avanzamos Unidos is to grow Latine political power in the state of Ohio. We are building a multi-class, multi-generational grassroots community organization that harnesses the collective political power of the Latinx/a/o/e…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Citizen Action; the most unlike its peers is River Valley Organizing. 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

59 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. 59 of the 70 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
39/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $510,201 · OtherFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVEOHIO UNITY COALITION: $427,970 · OtherOHIO UNITY COALITIONCOMMON CAUSE: $231,500 · OtherCOMMON CAUSEOHIO PROGRESSIVE AAPI WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP: $220,000 · OtherOHIO PROGRESSIVE AAPI WOMEN'S LEADERSHIPLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO: $169,185 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIORIVER VALLEY ORGANIZING: $87,500 · OtherOHIO PEOPLE'S JUSTICE LEADERS: $85,000 · Other+31 more: $657,974 · Other+31 moreOhio Womens Alliance: $389,520 · Community ImprovementOhio Womens Allia…OHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY: $205,000 · Community ImprovementOHIO FAMILIES UNI…Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $96,253 · Community ImprovementGreater Cleveland…NEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $46,750 · Community ImprovementNEIGHBORHOOD PROG…ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION OF OHIO: $40,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $17,000 · Community ImprovementOHIO CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $252,000 · Public BenefitOHIO CITIZEN AC…GREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC: $195,000 · Public BenefitGREATER CLEVELA…PROMISE OF DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION INC: $139,264 · Public BenefitPROMISE OF DEMO…COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE ED…THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE OHIO ORGANI…+2 more: $15,000 · Public BenefitNORTHEAST OHIO VOTER ADVOCATES INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsNORTHEAST O…Fair Elections Center: $68,000 · Civil RightsFair Electi…Equality Ohio: $65,000 · Civil RightsEquality Oh…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF W…URGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY: $40,253 · Civil RightsURGE UNITE …COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $36,000 · Civil RightsCOUNCIL ON …Black Appalachian Coalition: $32,000 · Civil RightsBlack Appal…WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAM…Equality Ohio Education Fund: $25,000 · Civil RightsAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $25,000 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $20,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $15,500 · Civil RightsHONESTY FOR OHIO EDUCATION: $200,000 · EducationNORTHEAST OHIO WORKER CENTER: $131,464 · EducationInnovation Ohio Education Fund: $20,000 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 · EducationYoung Latino Network: $169,166 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OKLA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $158,332 · Philanthropy
Other$2,389,330Community Improvement$794,523Public Benefit$711,264Civil Rights$506,753Education$366,464Arts & Culture$179,166Philanthropy$158,332

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 budgetFREEDOM RIGHTEOUS ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $510,201 over 3y, 28% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance: $389,520 over 4y, 26% of budgetOHIO CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $252,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE: $231,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOHIO FAMILIES UNITE AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY: $205,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetHONESTY FOR OHIO EDUCATION: $200,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND CONGREGATIONS INC: $195,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO: $169,185 over 4y, 48% of budgetYoung Latino Network: $169,166 over 3y, 63% of budgetOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $158,332 over 1y, 37% of budgetPROMISE OF DEMOCRACY FOUNDATION INC: $139,264 over 5y, 91% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO WORKER CENTER: $131,464 over 1y, 69% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO VOTER ADVOCATES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $96,253 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFair Elections Center: $68,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEquality Ohio: $65,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF OHIO EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFAITH IN PUBLIC LIFE INC: $47,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PROGRESS INC: $46,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOALITION ON HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING IN OHIO: $43,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetURGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY: $40,253 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN COALITION OF OHIO: $40,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS-OH: $36,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBlack Appalachian Coalition: $32,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetOHIO CITIZEN ACTION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAbortion Fund of Ohio: $29,424 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHINK MAKE LIVE YOUTH: $26,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetOhioans Against Extremism: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetEquality Ohio Education Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAsian & Pacific Islander American Vote: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER OF EAST LIVERPOOL INC: $21,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY REFUGEE & IMMIGRATION SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetInnovation Ohio Education Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetVINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Partnership: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR VICTIM ADVOCACY INC: $15,850 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…Greater Cleveland Nei…The Char and Chuck Fo…The Cleveland Foundat…New Venture FundTides FoundationColumbus FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncWomen's Fund of Centr…Clean and Prosperous …Amalgamated Charitabl…Ohio Progressive Coll…
The George Gund FoundationOH51.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Gund Foundation · Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Columbus Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Women's Fund of Central Ohio · Clean and Prosperous America · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education 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 Voice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ohio Voice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 70 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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