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GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC

GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,686,570 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($570,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$653k
9/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Greater Ohio Policy Center Inc does

Mission

The mission of the greater ohio policy center is to improve the communities of ohio through smart growth strategies and research.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The greater ohio policy center (gopc) held a successful brownfields conference that educated local leaders and connected professionals in the field. Gopc provided expertise and guidance to leaders in portsmouth, akron, cleveland heights, hamilton, and the mahoning valley. Gopc released a guide for non-engineers on how to build safe, vibrant streets and issued its biennial state policy platform. Gopc's expertise was featured in prominent media coverage and we received the "partner of the year" award from the ohio land bank association.

    $688,486 spent$650,551 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $688,486.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($539k) Expenses 100 ($585k) Net assets 100 ($235k)2018 Revenue 119 ($642k) Expenses 92 ($538k) Net assets 144 ($340k)2019 Revenue 128 ($691k) Expenses 98 ($574k) Net assets 194 ($457k)2020 Revenue 102 ($553k) Expenses 92 ($536k) Net assets 200 ($471k)2021 Revenue 129 ($698k) Expenses 99 ($576k) Net assets 246 ($578k)2022 Revenue 141 ($758k) Expenses 116 ($678k) Net assets 279 ($658k)2023 Revenue 116 ($627k) Expenses 132 ($770k) Net assets 219 ($514k)2024 Revenue 198 ($1.1M) Expenses 159 ($930k) Net assets 277 ($653k)
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Revenue (198)Expenses (159)Net assets (277)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 2023 to 2024, from $657k to $800k (+22%).

$248k
$349k
$463k
$573k
$626k
$763k
$657k
$800k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

38% of GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,293 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$45k
’17
$104k
’18
$117k
’19
$16k
’20
$121k
’21
$80k
’22
−$143k
’23
$138k
’24
6.0
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.

Chief executive

Alison Goebel

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1718161619182118
Joined·+6+3+5+4+3+4+4
No longer listed·5551417
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $164k → $195k.

6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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

GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC.

34%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 32% · 2019 56% · 2020 33% · 2021 35% · 2022 34% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.

“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

43% of GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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

97% of GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

MI
NY
OH
CA
MD

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $452k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve6.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 15%Fundraising 11%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

46%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC?
GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC (Ohio) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,686,570 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($570,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,686,570 in grants to GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC?
THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $570,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER OHIO POLICY CENTER INC 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 20 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