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Cincinnati Cancer Foundation Inc

The purpose of the cincinnati cancer foundation is to reduce the suffering and mortality associated with cancer in the greater cincinnati region and beyond by providing funding for research, improving clinical care, and educational initiatives.

$610k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$124kEducation$25kPhilanthropy$15kEmployment$13kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $487k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$21,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$37,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$34,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$34,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$29,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION - BEARCATS AGAINST CANCER FUND$29,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$29,000
CANCER FAMILY CARE$25,000
CINCINNATI CANCER CONSORTIUM$25,000
THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$23,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$23,000
ST ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$23,000
WOOD HUDSON CANCER RESEARCH LABORATORY$22,000
ERICA J HOLLOMAN FOUNDATION$21,000
THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$17,000
02The need
03

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, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $15k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$281k · 4 repeat orgs$512k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
2

Total granted

$281k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+8%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $481k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyReligionEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $229k · revenue +26%
  • ZP
    ZERO PROSTATE CANCER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $24k · revenue +3%
  • NC
    NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +8%
  • VL
    VENUE LIFESTYLE AND EVENT GUIDE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
2
University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Foundation Inc

Support for Markey Cancer Center Hospital building expansion and research projects.

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3
University Medical Center Inc

To provide care to our community and to serve as a major teaching hospital for education and training in medicine, dentistry, nursing, and allied health professions.

Health
4
Columbus Community Clinical Oncology Program

Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…

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5
Trinity Health Foundation

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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6
Indiana University Health North Hospital Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health
7
Thompson Cancer Survival Center

Thompson Cancer Survival Center provides support services for cancer patients, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to…

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8
Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…

Health
9
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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10
Trinity Hospital Twin City

As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.

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11
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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12
Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation

To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation of Cincinnati Inc; the most unlike its peers is Erica J Holloman Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $229,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUND…NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INCThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $40,000 · HealthThe Christ Hospital FoundationCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION I…Cancer Family Care Inc: $25,000 · HealthCancer Family Care IncZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $23,900 · HealthZERO PROSTATE CANCERSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $23,000 · HealthSt Elizabeth Medical Center In…Erica J Holloman Foundation: $21,000 · HealthErica J Holloman FoundationCancerFree KIDS: $17,000 · HealthCancerFree KIDSPINK RIBBON GOOD INC: $17,000 · HealthPINK RIBBON GOOD INCThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $10,000 · HealthMelanoma Know More: $7,500 · Health+1 more: $6,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI: $157,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIWOOD HUDSON CANCER RESEARCH LABORATORY INC: $38,000 · OtherWOOD HUDSON CANCER RESEARCH LA…Individual grant recipient: $12,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $5,750 · OtherBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $34,000 · ReligionTRIHEALTH INC: $17,000 · ReligionCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $29,000 · Arts & CultureXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $14,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$244,000Health$215,400Other$213,350Religion$51,000Arts & Culture$29,000Education$25,000Human Services$14,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $229,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZERO PROSTATE CANCER: $23,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRIHEALTH INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $14,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMelanoma Know More: $7,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 22 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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