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Connect Clermont

CONNECT CLERMONT is an all volunteer organization that distributes grants to community organizations and helps connect them with the resources they need to achieve their goals

$113k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Education$33kHuman Services$32kHealth$26kPhilanthropy$18kEnvironment$14kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kFood & Nutrition$8kYouth Development$8kOther$0
02FY2021 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $72,760, the rows itemized in this filing. The $112,560 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k8 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$10,000
FELICITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$8,400
GREATER CINCINATI BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$8,380
INTER PARISH MINISTRY$8,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$8,000
UNITED HEALTH SOURCE INC$8,000
CLERMONT SENIOR SERVICES INC$8,000
YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC$7,000
VALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION$6,980
02The need
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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 (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CLERMONT SENIOR SERVICES INC: $8k → 9%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $7k → 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
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
2
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
3
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…

Human Services
4
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
5
OhioGuidestone

To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.

Health
6
Community Matters Cincinnati Inc

To build a thriving and more just community, Community Matters goes beyond the traditional nonprofit model by forming partnerships with our neighbors instead of viewing them only as clients to be provided a service. We believe our…

Human Services
7
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services Foundation

The Foundation will serve as a supporting organization of Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services, which is an Ohio nonprofit corporation, a Code Section 501(c)(3) organization and a public charity described in Code Section…

Philanthropy
8
The Cincinnati Woman's Club Foundation
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9
Clermont Recovery Center Inc

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
10
Cincinnati Area Senior Services Inc

To promote the independence and preserve the dignity of older adults.

—
11
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.

Human Services
12
OhioHealth Corporation Group Return

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cincinnati; the most unlike its peers is Valley View 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

8 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. 8 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLERMONT COUNTY FIRE CHIEFS ASSN: $10,000 · OtherCLERMONT COUNTY FIRE CHIEFS ASSNYWCA HOUSE OF PEACE: $10,000 · OtherYWCA HOUSE OF PEACEWILLIAMSBURG SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherWILLIAMSBURG SCHOOLSHealthsource of Ohio Inc: $10,000 · OtherHealthsource of Ohio IncIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFELICITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $8,400 · OtherFELICITY EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONUNITED HEALTH SOURCE INC: $8,000 · OtherUNITED HEALTH SOURCE INCInter Parish Ministry Inc: $8,000 · OtherInter Parish Ministry IncMILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherMILFORD SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $7,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATICLERMONTCHAMBER COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherCLERMONTCHAMBER COMMERCE FOUNDATIONGOSHEN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $7,500 · OtherGOSHEN LOCAL SCHOOL DISTRICTCLERMONT SENIOR SERVICES: $7,000 · OtherCLERMONT SENIOR SERVICESCARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $6,850 · OtherCARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCYClermont Senior Services Inc: $8,000 · Human ServicesClermont S…YWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $7,000 · Human ServicesYWCA of Gr…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $10,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: $8,380 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI SCHOLASTIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentVALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION: $6,980 · Environment
Other$118,250Human Services$15,000Philanthropy$10,000Health$8,380Youth Development$8,000Environment$6,980

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHealthsource of Ohio Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: $8,380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI SCHOLASTIC FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetClermont Senior Services Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION: $6,980 over 1y, 3.0% 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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Duke Energy FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · 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 Connect Clermont funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connect Clermont. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Connect Clermont?

    Find your warmest path to Connect Clermont through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $76k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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