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The Ohio Organizing Collaborative

THE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE's mission is to organize everyday ohioans to build a transformative base of power for the purpose of achieving social, racial, and economic justice in ohio.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2023 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.3MCommunity Improvement$100kSocial Science$85kHuman Services$35kEnvironment$30kEmployment$25kYouth Development$25kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $2,065,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,115,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $50,000 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.8M
$85,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN$1,500,000
CITIZENS NOT POLITICIANS$300,000
NORTH MAIN STREET FUND$100,000
POLICY MATTERS OHIO$85,000
OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$30,000
PE HENDERSON SR FAMILY LIFE CENTER$25,000
BLAQ BIRTH CIRCLE$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY23–23, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STATE POWER FUND: $250k → 12%A PHILLIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE: $10k → 9%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 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 Redistricting Reform

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

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3
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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4
Ohioans for Secure and Fair Elections

Statewide ballot issue committee.

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5
Committee for Our Cleveland Metroparks

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

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6
Yes On National Popular Vote

Support "yes" vote on referendum dealing with national popular vote

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7
Building Our Children's Future

Ballot issue political action committee to pass a levy for the Columbus City School District.

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8
Ohioans for Raising the Wage

Statewide ballot issue committee

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9
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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10
Moving Central Ohio Forward

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

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11
Presidential Election Project Inc

Securing reforms to the electoral count act

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policy Matters Ohio; the most unlike its peers is P E Henderson Sr Family Life Center Inc. 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

13 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. 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
3/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $1,500,000 · Civil RightsTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN+1 more: $20,000 · Civil RightsCitizens Not Politicians: $300,000 · OtherCitizens Not PoliticiansOne Person One Vote: $256,000 · OtherOne Person One VoteInnovation Ohio: $25,000 · OtherBLAQ BIRTH CIRCLE: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $20,000 · OtherSTATE POWER FUND: $250,000 · Human ServicesSTATE POWER…A PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE SEATTLE: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTH MAIN STREET FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $85,000 · Social ScienceTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $30,000 · EnvironmentP E HENDERSON SR FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Civil Rights$1,520,000Other$626,000Human Services$260,000Community Improvement$100,000Social Science$85,000Environment$30,000Youth Development$25,000Philanthropy$20,000

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 budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN: $1,500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCitizens Not Politicians: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOne Person One Vote: $256,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSTATE POWER FUND: $250,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOLICY MATTERS OHIO: $85,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetInnovation Ohio: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetP E HENDERSON SR FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO COALITION ON BLACK CIVIC PARTICIPATION: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCincinnati Action for Housing Now: $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetA PHILIP RANDOLPH INSTITUTE SEATTLE: $10,000 over 1y, 29% 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.

Tides FoundationSixteen Thirty FundHopewell FundNew Venture FundDonor Advised Charita…
Tides FoundationCA13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2023
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no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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