How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Ohio?

Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Ohio, currently Tides Foundation, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Ohio from out of state.

How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Ohio?

$292M reached 229 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Ohio, from 790 funders. 27% came from funders also based in Ohio.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · Ohio · Civil rights and advocacy

Who funds civil rights and advocacy in Ohio

Civil rights and advocacy funding in Ohio is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights leads, and the money reaches 229 groups. Most of it comes from outside Ohio: only 27% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$292M

granted

229

organizations

27%

from in-state

The short version

790 funders gave $292M to 229 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Ohio across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
27% of that came from funders also based in Ohio; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of civil rights and advocacy in Ohio is Tides Foundation, at $26M.
The civil rights and advocacy organization drawing the most is Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, at $26M.

Largest funders of civil rights and advocacy in Ohio

The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Ohio, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Tides Foundation$26M 2Sixteen Thirty Fund$24M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$16M 4The George Gund Foundation$12M 5The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$12M 6Open Society Action Fund Inc$8M 7North Fund$7M 8Ohio Health Care Association$7M 9New Venture Fund$6M 10Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc$6M

Civil rights and advocacy organizations in Ohio that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

219 other civil rights and advocacy organizations$147M

Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights$26M The Ohio Organizing Collaborative$24M Justice for Migrant Women$13M Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund$12M American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Foundation Inc$11M National Digital Inclusion Alliance$11M Center for Christian Virtue$10M Abortion Forward Alliance$9M

How to find civil rights and advocacy funders in Ohio

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Start with the funders already active in Ohio
The funders giving the most to civil rights and advocacy in Ohio are Tides Foundation, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. A funder already writing civil rights and advocacy checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
73% of civil rights and advocacy money in Ohio comes from funders elsewhere, so national civil rights and advocacy funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Ohio.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a civil rights and advocacy nonprofit in Ohio?: Start with the funders already giving to civil rights and advocacy in Ohio, currently Tides Foundation, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the civil rights and advocacy organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Ohio from out of state.
Who is the largest civil rights and advocacy funder in Ohio?: Tides Foundation gives the most to civil rights and advocacy organizations in Ohio, $26M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to civil rights and advocacy in Ohio?: $292M reached 229 civil rights and advocacy organizations in Ohio, from 790 funders. 27% came from funders also based in Ohio.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.