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Bi3 Fund

To advance health equity and fuel innovation by investing in trust-based partnerships.

$7.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.2M
$101,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRIHEALTH INC$2,000,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$1,025,000
INTERACT FOR CHANGE$650,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO$625,000
YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI$377,500
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES$305,792
BUTLER COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CONSORTIUM DBA PRIMARY HEALTH SOLUTIONS$251,250
GROUNDWORK OHIO ORGANIZATION$206,000
MOTHERSHIP INCORPORATED$200,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO$200,000
NYNI INC$155,750
CENTRAL CLINIC OUTPATIENT SERVICES$150,000
THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$143,750
CHRIST TABERNACLE MINISTRIES OF EXCELLENCE$138,850
HEALTHY MOMS AND BABES INC$120,000
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $306k → 16%CHRIST TABERNACLE MINISTRIES OF EXCELLENCE: $139k → 12%GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA: $6k → 12%REFUGEE CONNECT: $102k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $625k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS: $46k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $200k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $378k → 16%THE DAD INITIATIVE: $50k → 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 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
OhioHealth Corporation Group Return

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
2
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
3
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
4
The Good Samaritan Hospital of Cincinnati Ohio

The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.

Health
5
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
6
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

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

Education
7
Elizabeth's New Life Center Inc

Provide complete and caring pregnancy services (without prejudice to religion, age, race, gender, marital status or income level) through its women's centers and prenatal care facility, as well as provide marriage enrichment, healthy…

Human Services
8
Ywca of Northwest Ohio

The ywca of northwest ohio strives to be a powerful proactive force for the support and advancement of women and girls in our community that will continue to work for peace, justice, equality, and dignity for all people.

Human Services
9
OhioHealth Corporation

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
10
Restoring Our Own Through Transformation

Comprehensively restore our collective well-being through collabortation, resource allocation, research & re-empowerment, in order to meet the needs of parents and families within communities.

Health
11
University Hospitals Health System Inc

University hospitals (the system) is guided by its mission, "to heal. to teach. to discover."

Health
12
Health Disparities Collaborative of Ohio

OFHESJ is a collaborative of agencies organizations and individuals concerned about minority and multicultural health health equity social justice and the elimination of health disparities for racial ethnic populations.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interact for Change and the most unlike its peers is The Black Collaborative Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%19%<5yr13%19%5–10yr17%3%10–20yr15%23%20–35yr15%10%35–55yr21%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%7%<5yr13%6%5–10yr17%1%10–20yr15%46%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr21%24%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 19% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
13%
1,900/14,985

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.

03the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 33 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
9/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $1,025,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERINTERACT FOR CHANGE — $650,000 · HealthINTERACT FOR CHANGEButler County Community Health Consortium Inc — $251,250 · HealthButler County Community Health Cons…Healthy Moms & Babes Inc — $120,000 · HealthBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 · Health+3 more — $164,000 · Health+3 moreTRIHEALTH INC — $2,000,000 · ReligionTRIHEALTH INCURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC — $625,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUT…YWCA of Greater Cincinnati — $377,500 · Human ServicesYWCA of Greater CincinnatiLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $305,792 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICESCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio — $200,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities Southwest…CHRIST TABERNACLE MINISTRIES OF EXCELLENCE INC — $138,850 · Human ServicesCHRIST TABERNACLE MINISTRIES…RefugeeConnect — $102,000 · Human ServicesRefugeeConnect+3 more — $102,125 · Human Services+3 moreNYNI INC — $155,750 · OtherNYNI INCCENTRAL CLINIC INC — $150,000 · OtherCENTRAL C…PREGNANCY LOVES COMPANY — $101,500 · OtherPREGNANCY…Ohio Children's Alliance — $50,000 · OtherOhio Chil…Immigrant & Refugee Law Center — $75,000 · OtherImmigrant…CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $50,000 · OtherCHILDREN'…+5 more — $44,000 · Other+5 moreMothership Incorporated — $200,000 · Arts & CultureA PICTURES WORTH INC — $7,500 · Arts & CultureGROUNDWORK OHIO — $206,000 · EducationTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $143,750 · Philanthropy
Health$2,305,250Religion$2,000,000Human Services$1,851,267Other$626,250Arts & Culture$207,500Education$206,000Philanthropy$143,750

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 budgetTRIHEALTH INC — $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER — $1,025,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $305,792 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGROUNDWORK OHIO — $206,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCHRIST TABERNACLE MINISTRIES OF EXCELLENCE INC — $138,850 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetRefugeeConnect — $102,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $95,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOhio Children's Alliance — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEvery Child Succeeds — $46,125 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Black Collaborative Inc — $8,500 over 1y, 75% of budgetA PICTURES WORTH INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetGREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Greater Cincinnat…Bethesda IncInteract for HealthMillstone FundColumbus FoundationDuke Energy FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater CincinnatiOH33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Bethesda Inc · Interact for Health · Millstone Fund · Columbus Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bi3 Fund 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    5report 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.

    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 33 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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