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Bi3 Fund at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interact for Change; 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.
03the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
9/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio: $200,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bi3 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bi3 Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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