· Public charity
Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati
Federated fundraising organization, working with over 30 local nonprofits,to build social & economic equality & a healthy environment,raise social awareness & support for member organizations through workplace giving campaigns, professional enrichment & community education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $28,216 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $123,701 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $95,485 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENT HOOD SOUTHWEST OHIO | $21,613 |
| OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER | $6,603 |
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 (FY19–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Ballot issue political action committee advocating for levy to support the homelessness population in Ohio.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Enrich the lives of cats and communities in Greater Cincinnati by providing low-cost, high-quality spay/neuter services for ferals, strays and pets; offering trap-neuter-return and other outreach programs; and operating a no-kill adoption…
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To advocate and educate on behalf of our members to increase the quality and supply of affordable housing in the state of ohio, and to provide our members with current legislative awareness, a forum for voicing legislative and programmatic…
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The open shelter provides, directly or by referral emergency shelter and assistance for homeless and marginally housed persons in central ohio, especially the most vulnerable among them; and to provide directly or by referral, coordinated,…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The First Step Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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.
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Scripps Howard 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 Community Shares of Greater Cincinnati 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.