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Equality Ohio Education Fund

Equality Ohio Education Fund (Ohio) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,569,192 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($997,400). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.8M
Funders on record
61
Grants received
$7.6M
Net assets
$739k
32/61 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%
01What it does

What Equality Ohio Education Fund does

Mission

Equality Ohio Education Fund identifies and transorms systems and institutions so LGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality. We envision an Ohio where people are welcome, affirmed, and flourishing.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. HEARTS & MINDS: This encompasses our efforts to educate and increase the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community and other vulnerable communities in order to increase acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, achieve a more cooperative progressive community, and obtain legal and lived equality for LGBTQ+ people in Ohio.

    $849,930 spent
    49% of program spending
  2. LEGAL CLINIC: We offer many free legal services, including consumer law (such as fraud and identity theft), family law, civil rights, administrative help (such as SSI or disability), identity documents and more to LGBTQ+ Ohioans at 300% of the federal poverty rate. Since the beginning of our Legal Clinic program, we have proudly served more than 2,700 LGBTQ+ individuals in navigating complex legal systems impacting their lives.

    $616,752 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. POLICY: Encompasses our efforts to analyze, educate about, and work to improve policies, processes, and procedures impacting the LGBTQ+ community in corporations, municipalities, administrative agencies, and state government.

    $278,944 spent
    16% of program spending
  4. Chroma

    $6,787 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,752,413.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.8M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($782k)2021 Revenue 66 ($1.2M) Expenses 142 ($1.8M) Net assets 78 ($607k)2022 Revenue 138 ($2.4M) Expenses 150 ($1.9M) Net assets 141 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 124 ($2.2M) Expenses 174 ($2.2M) Net assets 144 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 104 ($1.8M) Expenses 187 ($2.4M) Net assets 94 ($739k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (104)Expenses (187)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $664k to $1.2M (+85%).

$934k
$664k
$1.2M
$1.2M
$846k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

82% of Equality Ohio Education Fund’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,024 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$498k
’20
−$646k
’21
$530k
’22
−$27k
’23
−$555k
’24
4.1
months of
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed119788
Joined·+5+0+5+4
No longer listed·7244
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $225k → $1.7M.

16 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Equality Ohio Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. 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

Equality Ohio Education Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

56% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Equality Ohio Education Fund.

13%
largest funder
37%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 35% · 2019 32% · 2020 23% · 2021 20% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — broadly stable.

“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.

How long its funders stay

44% of Equality Ohio Education Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Equality Ohio Education Fund draws 64% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 13 states in all.

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DC
TX
FL

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. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Equality Ohio Education Fund's funding base is broadening — from 9 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−30% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Equality Ohio Education Fund

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Equality Ohio · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Equality Ohio Education Fund?
Equality Ohio Education Fund (Ohio) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,569,192 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($997,400). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Equality Ohio Education Fund have?
IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $7,569,192 in grants to Equality Ohio Education Fund, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Equality Ohio Education Fund?
THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $997,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Equality Ohio Education Fund 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 61 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