Mark Smith
This article showcases our top picks for the best Ohio based Association companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Association industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Ohio Association Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
POINT
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POINT is one app for you to find charity opportunities in your city.
FrontLine Service
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FrontLine Service is a private non-profit community.
PlayhouseSquare
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PlayhouseSquare is a performing arts center.
Dayton RTA
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The Greater Dayton RTA is the public transit agency that citizens count on in Montgomery County and western Greene County.
Connect Ohio Initiatives
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Connect Ohio Initiatives is working to bring the benfits of universal broadband to Ohio. Technology.
Cleveland Water Alliance
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leveland Water Alliance is a cross-sector network whose purpose is to share knowledge and spur innovative solutions to freshwater issues.
TQL
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TQL is one of the largest 3PLs in North America. They arrange the movement of more than 20,000 loads of freight per week.
Youngstown Foundation
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Youngstown Foundation is a locally administered, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
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The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) conducts research and analyses on financial.
Highlights for Children
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An American children’s magazine who’s motto is “Fun with a Purpose.”
National Association of Black Sports Professionals
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National Association of Black Sports Professionals is an enterprise that gives educational possibilities and automobiles for networking.
STRS Ohio
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STRS Ohio is one of the nation’s premier retirement systems, serving nearly a half million active and retired Ohio public educators.
Collective Health
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Collective Health is to improved upstream health factors that drive more than half of downstream illness and costs.
GlobalCast
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Global Cast is working to organize health care providers together from the world to discuss and share ideas.
Fidelity Charitable
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Since 1991, Fidelity Charitable has helped donors support over 190,000 nonprofit organizations with more than $19 billion in grants.
Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR)
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Ohio Department of Natural Resources is the administrative department of the Ohio state government
Delta Sigma Pi
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Delta Sigma Pi develops principled business leaders for the future by providing a lifetime of opportunity for members
InfraGard
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InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI and the private sector.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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Is the nonprofit organization that exists to educate visitors, fans and scholars from around the world.
Jani-King of New Orleans
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Jani-King is one of the world’s most inspiring companies and truly represents entrepreneurial spirit.
Idea Buyer
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Idea Buyer teams up with entrepreneurs to bring new ideas to market. The company was founded in 2004.
OKI Regional Council of Governments
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OKI Regional Council of Governments is a panel with a common objective of developing unified strategies to improve the quality of life.
Blacks In Technology
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Blacks In Technology is a tech focused community and media organization focused on increasing diversity in technology.
National Business Incubation Association
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National Business Incubation Association
Ohio Department of Higher Education
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The Ohio Department of Higher Education is a Cabinet-level agency for the Governor of the State of Ohio
School Employees Retirement System
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ERS is to provide our members, retirees, and beneficiaries with pension benefit programs and services that are soundly financed.
Innovation Engineering
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Innovation Engineering is to change the world by enabling innovation by everyone, everywhere, every day.
Delta Zeta Sorority
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Delta Zeta (ΔΖ) is an international college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
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Ohio Environmental Protection Agency protects the environment and public health.
The American Society for Nondestructive Testing
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The American Society for Nondestructive Testing is the technical society for nondestructive testing professionals.
Columbus Museum of Art
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Columbus Museum of Arts mission is to create great experiences with great art for everyone.
Stangcorp
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Stangcorp Inc. is a small, fairly new organization in the business services industry located in Shoreline, WA.
Western Golf Association
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The Western Golf Association’s championships rank among the oldest and most prestigious in the United States.
Aileron
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Aileron is a national non profit that exists to help private businesses to grow, to scale growth.
IAITAM
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IAITAM is an association for IT hardware and software asset management fields.
Community Energy Advisors
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Community Energy Advisors (CEA) is a trusted advisor to companies, communities, government entities, chambers.
Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
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I-O psychology is a dynamic and growing field that encompasses workplace issues at the individual and organizational level.
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
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Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber is one of the nation’s largest Chambers, representing the interests of nearly 4,000 member businesses.
Innovation Fund America
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Innovation Fund America is based on the Innovation Fund at Lorain County Community College.
Ohio State Bar Association
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The OSBA represents more than 22,000 Ohio lawyers and judges, nearly 64 percent of Ohio law practitioners.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
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National Inventors Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization dedicated to inventors and their inventions.
Women in Aviation International
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Women in Aviation International is an organization providing information and scholarships for female pilots.
Hoxworth Blood Center
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Hoxworth Blood Center is a nonprofit organization specializing in blood donation, donor testing, and RBC exchange services.
The American Ceramic Society
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The American Ceramic Society is a society for ceramic and glass engineers, material scientists, students, professors, and manufacturers.
NEOSA
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COSE is the region’s largest #smallbusiness support organization providing cost-effective group purchasing programs, advocacy, networking &
Seed Coworking
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Toledo’s original cowork community in Downtown’s historic St. Clair Village.
Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association
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Ohio Cable Telecommunications Association represents the cable television and telecommunications industry.
Ohio Bankers League
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Ohio Bankers League is a trade association that focuses on meeting the needs and requirements of all banks, thrifts & savings institutions.
Business Professionals of America
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Business Professionals of America is a career and technical student organization for students pursuing careers in business.
Ohio Mentor
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Ohio Mentor is a leading home and community based service provider of behavioral and other complex challenges as well as their families.
National Real Estate Investors Association
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The National Real Estate Investors Association is a 501 (c) 6 trade association.
Show stoppers
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ShowStoppers is the global leader in producing press and business events in the United States, Europe and Asia — for more than 23 years.
International Association of Registered Financial Consultants
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Registered financial consultants
MassINC
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Our mission is to promote the growth of a vibrant middle class. We achieve impact by moving ideas to public policy through civic engagement.
StriveTogether
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StriveTogether is a national movement that uses collective impact to help children succeed from cradle to career.
LEADS Community Action Agency
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LEADS Community Action Agency is a non-profit organization that provides immediate assistance and lasting solution services.
Cleveland Leadership Center
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Cleveland Leadership Center is a nonprofit community organization that develops Cleveland’s leadership through transformative experiences.
Ohio Automobile Dealers Association
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OADA is a political, economic, and educational association created for Ohio dealers.
Cleveland Film Society
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Cleveland Film Society is an international film organization that presents new and upcoming films from around the world.
Autonomy Hub, LLC
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Accelerator leading by innovation, collaboration and providing a lab environment for autonomous and unmanned opportunities and education.
Clermont County Board of Developmental Disabilities
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Clermont County Board of Developmental Disabilities is a non-profit organization that offers comprehensive clinical services.
Tech Toledo
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Connecting the Tech & Entrepreneur Communities in the Toledo Region.
Scripps National Spelling Bee
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The nation’s largest and longest-running educational promotion, administered on a not-for-profit.
J-RAB
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J-RAB engages in protecting and advocating resident’s concerns with respect to tenant rights and CMHA resident-focused policies.
Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association
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Greater Cleveland Automobile Dealers Association.
A Seat At The Table
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A Seat At The Table’s goal is to create a world where young people are actively creating change through civic engagement and education.
American Self-Protection Association
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American Self-Protection Association provides a mixed martial art training program and methods through books, articles & instructors.
American Association for Bronchology
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American Association for Bronchology
Las Gralarias Foundation
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Support the conservation efforts of Reserva Las Gralarias, located in the parish of Mindo, Ecuador
Toledo Career Institute
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Toledo Career Institute was founded in May of 2015
paul-lawrence associates
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paul-lawrence associates and highbridge associates are uniquely integrated human capital services firms with a progressive approach.
Club 513 L.L.C
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Club 513 L.L.C is a company that specializes in concert promotion.Domestic,and worldwide.
Buckeye Biomedical Services
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Buckeye Biomedical Services, LLC is an independent service organization (ISO) that services the Veterinary Medicine community, Human.
Ohio Hotel & Lodging
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Ohio Hotel & Lodging Association is one of the oldest organizations for hoteliers and lodging professionals.
Eastwind Women’s Health
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Eastwind Women’s Health is a community based practice offering obstetrics and gynecology.
Business Careers in Entertainment Association
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BCEA is a non-profit organization working to help students by bringing them together with entertainment industry professionals.
Civic Commons
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Civic Commons is a civic engagement utility and consultancy serving community on aspects of social networking and social media.
ROX
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ROX is the national nonprofit leader in girl-focused programming, research, and education.
National Museum of the United States Air Force
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The oldest and largest military aviation museum in the world — located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio.
Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland
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Yale Alumni Association of Cleveland
Miami Valley Human Resources Association
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Miami Valley Human Resources Association
Lorain Swcd
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Lorain Swcd is a non-profit & government company located in Elyria.
Ohio Army National Guard
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The Soldiers and Airmen of the Ohio National Guard stand ready to support federal, state and community missions.
The Well CDC
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The Well CDC will collaborate with partners to develop affordable housing, a thriving economy, and community-building initiatives.
OptEdge
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OptEdge is a company that assists public schools in their financial and operational strategies.
Hitchings Insurance Agency
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Hitchings Insurance Agency has been serving the needs of Ohio consumers since 1968.
Partnership for 21st Century Learning
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Serve as a catalyst for 21st century learning to build collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government
Certwin
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Certwin is an organization that offers government certification to a variety of IT businesses.
Ohio Scholastic Chess Association
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Ohio Scholastic Chess Association is recognized as a charitable, organization by the Internal Revenue Service.
