· Public charity
Cincinnati Regional Business Committee
The CINCINNATI REGIONAL BUSINESS COMMITTEE (crbc) exists to ignite and accelerate transformational change in the greater cincinnati community, leveraging the unique assets, leadership and collective resources of business executives to have long-term positive impact for sustainable growth and regional prosperity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $440,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $480,083 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $39,583 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $58k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS | $200,000 |
| CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CINTRIFUSE | $50,000 |
| KENTUCKY STUDENTS FIRST | $50,000 |
| REDI CINCINNATI | $33,000 |
| IDEA CINCINNATI | $25,000 |
| THE PORT OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -68% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCintrifuse6× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +29%
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC6× · 2017–2022 · $330k · revenue +215%
- CUCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $240k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- RCREDI CINCINNATIone grant, 2022 · $100k
- COCINCINNATIANS OPPOSED TO NEW TAXESone grant, 2023 · $100k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $59k · revenue +20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
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To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Columbus compact is a catalyst for positive development of central city columbus' neighborhoods and business districts.
To facilitate investment in energy efficiency and solar for homeowners, non-profit organizations, and commercial building owners through outreach and education, project management, and financing solutions.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
The community education coalition (cec) is a partnership of education, business, and community stakeholders focused on aligning and integrating our community learning system, economic development, and quality of life.
Teacher representation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cise. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Cintrifuse ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI BUSINESS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY STUDENTS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds IDEA Public Schools ↗
- Who funds GREEN UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds OHIO EXCELS ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR CHILDRENS SERVICES OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Hcs Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Cincinnati Regional Business Committee 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.
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.