Ohio Education Association
Columbus, OH · EIN 31-4269414. Reported 136 grants totalling $8,513,837 to 52 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 51% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 71% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,177 and $27,181; the smallest was $5,320 and the largest $1,144,194. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbus Education Association | Columbus, OH | $4,364,617 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Canton Professional Educators Association | Canton, OH | $798,215 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Oea Educational Foundation | Columbus, OH | $750,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ohio Voice | Columbus, OH | $110,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| South-Western Education Association | Grove City, OH | $107,490 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Groveport Madison Local Education Association | New Albany, OH | $106,774 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mansfield School Employees Association | Mansfield, OH | $101,247 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Ohio Progressive Collaborative | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | |
| Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund | Columbus, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fredericktown Education Association | Fredericktown, OH | $97,151 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Liberty Ase | $96,291 | 4 | 4 | 2023 | |
| Hilliard Education Association | Hilliard, OH | $90,812 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Lorain Education Association | Lorain, OH | $86,996 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Mentor Tea | $86,064 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | |
| Lead Ohio | Columbus, OH | $85,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sylvania Education Association | Toledo, OH | $80,621 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Willoughby-Eastlake Teachers Association | Willoughby, OH | $73,378 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Huber Heights Education Association | Piqua, OH | $71,069 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Parma Education Association Incorporated | Parma Heights, OH | $67,918 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Warren Local Education Association | Little Hockng, OH | $66,781 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Westerville Education Association | Westerville, OH | $66,759 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tallmadge Teachers Association | Cuyahoga Fls, OH | $65,775 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Worthington Education Association | Worthington, OH | $62,861 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Twinsburg Education Association | Twinsburg, OH | $61,458 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brunswick Education Association | Brunswick, OH | $58,704 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Field Local Teachers Association | Mogadore, OH | $57,338 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Lakota Education Association | Monroe, OH | $53,890 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Painesville City Teachers Association | Painesville, OH | $50,222 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Innovation Ohio | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | |
| Support Ohio Schools | Worthington, OH | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mount Vernon Education Association | Gambier, OH | $48,114 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Youngstown Education Association | Warren, OH | $45,323 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Howland Classroom Teachers Association | Cortland, OH | $40,238 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Hamilton Classroom Teachers Assoc | Hamilton, OH | $39,656 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dayton Education Association | Dayton, OH | $30,040 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Big Walnut Education Association | Sunbury, OH | $27,299 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Kids Voting USA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | |
| Ohio Coalition for Equity and Adequacy | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Sheffield - Sheffield Lake Teachers Association | Sheffield Vlg, OH | $23,001 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Mentor Classified Employees | Mentor, OH | $21,679 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Dublin Educators Association | Dublin, OH | $20,262 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice | Grand Rapids, MI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sycamore Education Assn Green School | Cincinnati, OH | $19,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Willoughby-Eastlake Classified Personnel | Mentor, OH | $15,320 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Equality Ohio Education Fund | Columbus, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kids Voting Ohio | Worthington, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohio Democratic National Convention | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| Pickerington Education Association | Pickerington, OH | $13,045 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gahanna-Jefferson Education Association | Gahanna, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Greater Lake Center for Education | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| One Person One Vote | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | |
| Olentangy | $7,929 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
40 of 52 (77%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 13 of 52 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 31 | $1,830,990 | $15,057 |
| 2021 | 30 | $1,829,761 | $18,545 |
| 2022 | 37 | $2,664,421 | $22,925 |
| 2023 | 38 | $2,188,665 | $21,555 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
100% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $20,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ohio Education Association's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 31 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 225 East Broad Street, Columbus, OH, 43215.
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