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COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,080,190 to it, the largest being Ohio Education Association ($9,660,195). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$10M
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
2/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($588k)2018 Revenue 98 ($1.7M) Expenses 98 ($1.6M) Net assets 117 ($687k)2019 Revenue 101 ($1.7M) Expenses 95 ($1.5M) Net assets 151 ($887k)2020 Revenue 101 ($1.7M) Expenses 90 ($1.5M) Net assets 197 ($1.2M)2021 Revenue 102 ($1.8M) Expenses 90 ($1.5M) Net assets 249 ($1.5M)2022 Revenue 112 ($1.9M) Expenses 108 ($1.7M) Net assets 279 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 117 ($2.0M) Expenses 131 ($2.1M) Net assets 262 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 123 ($2.1M) Expenses 139 ($2.2M) Net assets 238 ($1.4M)2025 Revenue 126 ($2.2M) Expenses 142 ($2.3M) Net assets 215 ($1.3M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Revenue (126)Expenses (142)Net assets (215)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$103k
’17
$98k
’18
$200k
’19
$273k
’20
$307k
’21
$182k
’22
−$98k
’23
−$141k
’24
−$133k
’25
4.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $886k → $1.2M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
2
2

From the IRS filings of COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

How concentrated its funding is

COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% 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

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 97% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2022 91% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.

Where its funders are

96% of COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Canton Professional Educators Association81%Cleveland Teachers Union 279 Cleveland81%Westerville Education Association81%Cincinnati Federation of Teachers Inc81%The Columbus Bar Association80%Columbus Medical Association80%Oea Educational Foundation80%Cleveland Hts Teachers Credit Union79%

Nationally

Colorado Education Association83%Columbus Learning Center Management Corp D/B/A Community Education Coalition83%Connecticut Education Association Inc82%Hamilton County Education Assoc Inc82%Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association Inc81%Canton Professional Educators Association81%Cleveland Teachers Union 279 Cleveland81%Westerville Education Association81%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • Cea Foundation · exempt
  • Nea Foundation · exempt
  • Oea Foundation · exempt
  • Ohio Education Association · exempt
  • National Education Association · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: 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 COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,080,190 to it, the largest being Ohio Education Association ($9,660,195). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,080,190 in grants to COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
Ohio Education Association is the largest funder on record, with $9,660,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLUMBUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing