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7 Principles Foundation Inc Co Fifth Third

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$123k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$215kYouth Development$170kEmployment$66kArts & Culture$65kCivil Rights$40kPhilanthropy$35kEducation$28kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SW OHIO$25,000
SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION$15,000
WHOLE AGAIN INTERNATIONAL$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI$10,000
FOREVER KINGS INC$10,000
BLACK ACHIEVERS INC$7,500
TALBERT HOUSE$5,000
DELTA GAMMA LAMBDA FOUNDATION INC$5,000
PRESTON BROWN FOUNDATION$5,000
UPSPRING$5,000
JAZZ ALIVE INC$5,000
LITERACY LAB$5,000
MY BROTHERS KEEPER$5,000
SUMMER WORK EXPERIENCE IN LAW INC$5,000
CINCINNATI ASPIRE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $17k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $5k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $5k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $30k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $25k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $25k → 16%FOREVER KINGS INC: $13k → 16%FOREVER KINGS INC: $10k → 16%FOREVER KINGS INC: $10k → 16%FOREVER KINGS INC: $10k → 16%THE DAD INITIATIVE: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$499k · 17 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
20

Total granted

$499k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-1%

Still filing today

82%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TS
    THE SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +90%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +39%
  • BA
    BLACK ACHIEVERS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • WH
    WOMEN HELPING WOMENgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +140%
  • AO
    ART OF THE PIANO
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue -57%
  • UL
    URBAN LEAGUE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
2
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…

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3
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
4
Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc

Provide a rigorous four-year college-preparatory summer learning program for high-need and high-potential middle school students and inspire and train college students as the next generation of teachers.

Community Improvement
5
Radical Alli Center

The Radical ALLI Center hosts community gatherings to inspire young people to share knowledge, collaborate, and create social good among peers.

Education
6
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
7
Consortium of African American Organizations

To utilize the resources of northeast ohio african americans professional organizatiaons to promote economic in afri-amer community and to enhance career & entreprenerial opportunities for afri-amer

Public Benefit
8
Art Opportunities Inc

To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.

Arts & Culture
9
Wordplay Cincy

WordPlay Cincy sparks storytelling through creative expression and arts in healing with Cincinnatis young people to cultivate belonging, celebrate our strengths, and empower the community in its pursuit of social justice.

Education
10
The Masters Preparatory Academy

The masters preparatory academy is an all male board school designed to serve african american boys from accross the state of ohio and surrounding states. students will learn the methods and skills of high academic excellence.

Education
11
Level Up Cincinnati

LUC's mission is to empower underserved students, particularly first-gen students from low-income families, to thrive in education and professional careers. The program addresses critical challenges faced by these students, such as higher…

Education
12
Elevate Indianapolis Inc

Our mission is to build long-term, life-changing relationships with Indianapolis urban youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Art of the Piano. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%3%<5yr14%25%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%11%35–55yr15%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr14%22%5–10yr18%32%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%9%35–55yr15%24%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
721/5,466

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
18/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION — $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATIONURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHI…Forever Kings Inc — $42,500 · Human ServicesForever Kings IncLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $27,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICESTALBERT HOUSE — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $5,000 · Human ServicesLINKS FOUNDATION INC FOR QUEEN CITY — $35,000 · OtherLINKS FOUNDATION INC FOR QUEEN CIT…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $25,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINC…URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SW OHIO — $25,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SW OHIOWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $25,000 · OtherWOMEN HELPING WOMENURBAN LEAGUE — $15,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUETHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 · OtherLEARNING THROUGH ART — $10,000 · OtherPOWER FORWARD ATHLETICS FDTN — $8,750 · OtherGreater Cincinnati Microenterprise — $10,000 · Other+12 more — $60,000 · Other+12 moreBLACK ACHIEVERS INC — $65,500 · EducationBLACK ACHIEVE…THE LITERACY LAB — $10,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY …Summer Work Experience In Law Inc — $5,000 · EducationSummer Work E…PRESTON BROWN FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationPRESTON BROWN…Never The Less Inc — $32,932 · Youth DevelopmentNever The Les…UPSPRING — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentUPSPRINGGASKINS FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentGASKINS FOUND…WHOLE AGAIN — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentWHOLE AGAINALPHA DELTA BOULE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentALPHA DELTA B…ACADEMY FOR TECHNOLIGISTS EXTRAORDI — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentACADEMY FOR T…ART OF THE PIANO — $18,000 · Arts & CultureREVOLUTION DANCE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ ALIVE INC — $12,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyADVOCATES FOR YOUTH EDUCATION INC — $3,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 · Health
Human Services$259,500Other$223,750Education$85,500Youth Development$85,432Arts & Culture$50,000Philanthropy$13,000Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SISTER ACCORD FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK ACHIEVERS INC — $65,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetForever Kings Inc — $42,500 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $27,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetART OF THE PIANO — $18,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetUPSPRING — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGASKINS FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetJAZZ ALIVE INC — $12,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LINKS FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHOLE AGAIN — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLEARNING THROUGH ART — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA DELTA BOULE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Microenterprise — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetKELLY YOUTH SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSummer Work Experience In Law Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetElementz — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetS T A R Chapter Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPRESTON BROWN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetEASLEY BLESSED FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMortar Cincinnati — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMY BROTHER'S KEEPER THERAPEUTIC HOME FOR YOUTH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACADEMY FOR TECHNOLIGISTS EXTRAORDI — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAD INIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetADVOCATES FOR YOUTH EDUCATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Greater Cincinnat…United Way of Greater…Carol Ann and Ralph V…First Financial Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Interact for HealthDuke Energy FoundationThe Scripps Howard Fo…Cincinnati Institute …Millstone FundCharles H Dater Found…Pfau Charitable Found…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH50.5× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · First Financial Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Interact for Health · Duke Energy Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Pfau Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 7 Principles Foundation Inc Co Fifth Third funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to 7 Principles Foundation Inc Co Fifth Third?

    Find your warmest path to 7 Principles Foundation Inc Co Fifth Third through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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