Ohio · Nonprofit
ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION
ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $18k
- Net assets
- $-134950
What Assembly for Action does
Mission
To promote the common good and general welfare of the residents of northeast ohio by operating as a ballot-issues committee to support levies, public funding, and other initiatives and referenda that advance arts and culture in northeast ohio and by researching and advocating for effective and sustainable methods of public funding and the investment of that public funding for the benefit of the public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Assembly for Action is a 501(c)(4) that advocates for the arts and culture sector. In 2024, assembly for the action, community nonprofit organizations, stakeholders, and approximately 35 volunteers led a successful ballot issue campaign to expand cuyahoga county's cigarette tax that provides public funding for the region's arts and culture nonprofits. The organization is governed by a volunteer board of community and arts leaders who utilize their unique expertise and skills to further advance issues affecting the sector.
$1,327,255 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,327,255.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $16k to $7k (−56%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Fred Bidwell
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $210k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION raised.
From the IRS filings of ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION?
- ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($15,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $17,500 in grants to ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION?
- THE CHAR AND CHUCK FOWLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSEMBLY FOR ACTION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing