Ohio · Public charity
Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative
CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE partners with individuals and other organizations to develop worker-owned businesses which provide family- sustaining jobs and create economy that works for all.
- $267k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $208,912
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $208,912
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $414k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $267k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $128k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $143k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $111k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $153k | 71% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $109k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $58k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $81k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Harvest Cooperative | $596,779 | 9 | n/a |
| Freedom Groove | $208,912 | 1 | n/a |
| Queen Mother's Market Cooperative | $90,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Southeast Center for Cooperative Development | $33,950 | 2 | 14% |
| Cooperation Jackson of Mississippi | $27,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wellspring Cooperative Corporation | $27,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cooperacin Santa Ana | $24,500 | 2 | 4% |
| The Working World Inc | $10,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Your Store of the Queen City | $8,000 | 1 | 5% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative
- How much does Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative give?
- Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative reported 2 grants totaling $266,526 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (59%), Public Benefit (18%), Community Improvement (13%).
- Who are Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Our Harvest Cooperative ($597k), Freedom Groove ($209k), Queen Mother's Market Cooperative ($90k).
- Does Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative based?
- Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative is based in OH.
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