· Private foundation
Devou Good Project Inc
Cultivate vibrant communities out of transitional neighborhoods.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $74k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $142k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUSTAINABLE CINCY | $141,637 |
| Individual grant recipient | $47,343 |
| DEVOU PARK TRAIL COLLECTIVE | $26,212 |
| TRINITY CHURCH COVINGTON | $6,315 |
| COLLEGE HILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $4,824 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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.
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 +140% since the first grant, against +98% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CHCOLLEGE HILL COMMUNITY COUNCIL3× · 2023–2025 · $467k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2020–2022 · $332k
- SCSUSTAINABLE CINCY2× · 2024–2025 · $218k
Funded once
- TMTURKEYFOOT MIDDLE SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $114k
- KCKENTON CO SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $32k
- CPCINCINNATI PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $19k
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.
The mission of the downtown council is to to create and maintain an urban environment that provides (1) economic reasons for businesses to be downtown, (2) a quality of life that encourages people to live downtown, and (3) enterainment and…
To engage the akron, ohio community around the creation and sustainability of vibrant public spaces within the city of akron. we foster and support neighborhood park advocates by enabling them to meet their goals, partner with the city and…
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
The mission of city tech collaborative (dba civic infrastructure collaborative) is to create public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology enabled innovation.
Kingston Land Trust, Inc. (KLT) is a nonprofit organization established in 2010 for the purpose of protecting and preservation of urban and rural lands that include historic sites, wetlands, scenic areas, and forests in the City of…
Our mission is to provide financial and volunteer assistance with land acquisition, design, construction, and maintenance of the Cumberland Trail in Tennessee; to serve as an advocate for the Cumberland Trail and the regions bounding it in…
To improve lives by providing support through funding local agenies and performing community growth activities.
Build a world-class economy in northern kentucky through the expansion of existing businesses and the creation and attraction of high quality, primary industry employers.
Our mission is to promote and support the development of strong businesses and a vibrant economy in the northern kentucky region, through leadership and advocacy, resulting in a better quality of life for all.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
To Provide community support and programming in development, financial wellbeing, building healthy communities and partnerships for youth and families
To encourage, foster, promote and market travel and tourism in cincinnati and northern kentucky.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America Walks Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Northside Community Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 37 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 Tri-State Trails dba CROWN Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds America Walks Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RENAISSANCE COVINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STRONG TOWNS ↗
- Who funds TEAM KENTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Northside Community Council ↗
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 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Devou Good Project Inc 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.
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