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Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,392,204 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($2,230,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$2.4M
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$2.7M
15/41 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund does

Mission

To convene a high capacity group of individual and institutional donors that leverages resources to achieve policy goals advancing the progressive movement in Ohio, and to promote education through distributions to exempt educational organizations and projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization fulfilled its exempt educational purposes through grants to Ohio-based nonprofit organizations engaged in civic education, public policy research, and community engagement. Funded activities addressed issues of public concern, including but not limited to, public education, affordability, access to justice, and civic participation. Grantmaking decisions were made by the board of directors under established criteria emphasizing educational impact and public benefit.

    $1,487,949 spentof which $625,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,487,949.

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

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($364k) Expenses 100 ($218k) Net assets 100 ($146k)2020 Revenue 506 ($1.8M) Expenses 548 ($1.2M) Net assets 674 ($986k)2021 Revenue 187 ($681k) Expenses 521 ($1.1M) Net assets 363 ($531k)2022 Revenue 472 ($1.7M) Expenses 781 ($1.7M) Net assets 374 ($547k)2023 Revenue 1657 ($6.0M) Expenses 2074 ($4.5M) Net assets 1411 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 2168 ($7.9M) Expenses 3386 ($7.4M) Net assets 1764 ($2.6M)2025 Revenue 671 ($2.4M) Expenses 1051 ($2.3M) Net assets 1870 ($2.7M)
2018202020212022202320242025
Revenue (671)Expenses (1051)Net assets (1870)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 2022 to 2023, from $547k to $2.1M (+277%).

$146k
$986k
$531k
$547k
$2.1M
$2.6M
$2.7M
2018202020212022202320242025
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
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$146k
’18
$650k
’20
−$455k
’21
$16k
’22
$1.5M
’23
$517k
’24
$155k
’25
9.2
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.

2018202020212022202320242025
Listed3333333
Joined··+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed··00000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $911k → $5.6M.

22 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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

Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

62% 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 Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund.

14%
largest funder
40%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 49% · 2022 37% · 2023 25% — diversifying over time.

“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

56% of Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.8M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from funders outside Ohio, across 10 states.

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
OH
NE
VA
NC
TX

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

’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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

Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve9.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 28%Fundraising 7%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

  • Ohio Progressive Collaborative · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund?
Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund (Ohio) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,392,204 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($2,230,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $15,392,204 in grants to Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund?
THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,230,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Ohio Progressive Collaborative 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 41 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