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OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $173,040 to it, the largest being AURORA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ($173,040). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$74M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$173k
Net assets
$220M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Ohio Education Association does

Mission

Oea's mission is to lead the way for the continuous improvement of public education while advocating for our members and the students we serve. We always have, and always will, work to the end. Through oea's more than 150 year history oea members have been involved in every struggle and effort to advance the finest of america's dreams: a quality public education for every child.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Governance -provides strategic direction of the organization, monitors state education related actions and responds. Includes the three elected officers, the board of directors, the association appeals board, and the committees, commissions, and divisions.

  2. Executive offices and association counsel -responsible for oea staff, operations, and maintaining legal compliance. Provides counsel to governance and staff.

  3. Member services -contains of four main areas:communications provides internal and external communications services, including membership promotion services and program mailings.education policy research & member advocacy provides professional development activities for staff and members and assists the association in understanding and responding to critical educational reform issues.governmental services provides legislative lobbying and political action services, administers the oea fund for children and public education (dba the oea fund), and the oea political contributing entity.program delivery administers the uniserv delivery program to provide professional development training, bargaining, contract administration, grievance processing, and other vital programmatic assistance to affiliates and members. Administers the unified legal service program, the liability protection program, the association liability program, and the attorney referral program. Coordinates and administers the association's organizing plan for membership expansion, membership maintenance, and research services.

  4. Business services -contains of six main areas:accounting carries out financial operations of the association including: financial reporting, audits payroll, maintains pension systems and benefits, provides trainings, assists affiliates with audits and compliance, and ensures compliance with oea policies.computer services implements all oea technology policy, equipment and software, designs, builds, and maintains the oea and affiliate networks, manages cyber risk, and trains staff on related issues.human resources supervises employee relations and benefits administration, negotiates and monitors staff contracts, and administers programs developed to hire, train, and maintain qualified employees. Processes payroll and pension benefits.membership processes member enrollments and maintains records of accounts receivable.printing and mailing/physical plant prints, duplicates, copies materials and distributes all mail. Provides for the upkeep of owned and leased facilities and property and negotiates leases.

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($59M) Expenses 100 ($47M) Net assets 100 ($76M)2018 Revenue 109 ($64M) Expenses 103 ($48M) Net assets 130 ($99M)2019 Revenue 110 ($65M) Expenses 101 ($48M) Net assets 131 ($100M)2020 Revenue 113 ($66M) Expenses 101 ($48M) Net assets 171 ($130M)2021 Revenue 107 ($63M) Expenses 103 ($49M) Net assets 216 ($165M)2022 Revenue 113 ($66M) Expenses 110 ($52M) Net assets 215 ($164M)2023 Revenue 116 ($68M) Expenses 119 ($56M) Net assets 235 ($180M)2024 Revenue 116 ($68M) Expenses 119 ($56M) Net assets 267 ($204M)2025 Revenue 126 ($74M) Expenses 131 ($62M) Net assets 288 ($220M)
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Revenue (126)Expenses (131)Net assets (288)

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 $133M to $159M (+19%).

$105M
$117M
$133M
$159M
$182M
$178M
$194M
$217M
$236M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$11M
’17
$15M
’18
$17M
’19
$19M
’20
$14M
’21
$14M
’22
$12M
’23
$11M
’24
$12M
’25
2.6
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.

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Listed606163616163696464
Joined·+15+17+18+11+16+20+13+12
No longer listed·1415201114141812
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $173k → $0.

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

Left out of every figure on this page: $42M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest National Education Association of the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION raised.

From the IRS filings of OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’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.

Where its funders are

100% of OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

OH

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 OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

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.

Governance

52
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 9 related entities

  • Ohio Education Association Fund for Children & Public Education · exempt
  • Ohio Education Association Political Contributing Entity · exempt
  • Oea Educational Foundation · exempt
  • Ohio Retired Teachers Foundation · exempt
  • Educators for Ohio · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Ohio) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $173,040 to it, the largest being AURORA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ($173,040). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $173,040 in grants to OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OHIO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
AURORA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $173,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OHIO 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 1 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