Organize Ohio Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
341908098
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Cleveland, OH, USA
Phone
2165480935
Rating
70
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Service Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$104,093
Expenses
$64,852
Assets
$86,804
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Lawrence Bresler (Executive Director)

People named in this filing

  • Lawrence Bresler (Executive Director)
  • Charles Bromley (Ohio Fair Lending Director)
  • Logan Martinez (Board Member)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Promote and assist grassroots community organizing and affordable and fair housing. Provide assistance to community organizations and groups in Ohio through conferences, technical assistance, coordination and helping groups work together on issues impacting their lives. Support, coordination and assistance is given to the Shaker Square Alliance, Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality, and other groups.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide technical support to community organizations and groups throughout Ohio through conferences, technical assistance, coordination, and helping groups work together on issues impacting their lives. Support, coordination and assistance is given to the Shaker Square Alliance, Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality, and other groups.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 77
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 41.2%; rating input score 41
  • Program expense ratio: 66.2%; rating input score 66

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 37.7%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -29.3% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -20% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 41.2% of revenue deployed · 66.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.