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JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC

JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$120k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$260k
Net assets
$0
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Jobs and Progress Fund Inc does

Mission

To promote the common good and general welfare through education and legislative participation on public matters that significantly impact the economy, job growth and retention, employment and that are designed to promote fiscal responsibility.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.

Program

Policy and public opinion research into and public communications related to fiscal responsibility and the effect of increased government spending and debt on the economy.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($452k) Expenses 100 ($297k) Net assets 100 ($155k)2019 Revenue 44 ($200k) Expenses 89 ($264k) Net assets 59 ($91k)2020 Revenue 98 ($444k) Expenses 157 ($466k) Net assets 54 ($84k)2021 Revenue 27 ($120k) Expenses 63 ($187k) Net assets 0 ($0)
2018201920202021
Revenue (27)Expenses (63)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $84k to $0 (−100%).

$155k
$91k
$84k
$0
2018201920202021
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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$155k
’18
−$64k
’19
−$21k
’20
−$67k
’21
2.2
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.

2018201920202021
Listed1111
Joined····
No longer listed····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $75k.

Funder
'18
'20
'21
total
$75k
Oregon Pathfinderunclassified
$10k
funders
1
2
1

From the IRS filings of JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC’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

JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

100% 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 JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC.

38%
largest funder
96%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 4 states in all.

MI
OR
OH
VA

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

’18
’20
’21
Ohio out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

1
board members
0%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Coalition to Secure Elections LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC: 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 JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC?
JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $260,000 to it, the largest being MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $260,000 in grants to JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC.
Who is the largest funder of JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND INC?
MICHIGAN CITIZENS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like JOBS AND PROGRESS FUND 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 4 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