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Fotofocus Cincinnati

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,500
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$88kFood & Nutrition$2kCommunity Improvement$1kHealth$500Human Services$500Religion$500Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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How do I get to Fotofocus Cincinnati?

Find your warmest path to Fotofocus Cincinnati 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.

About Fotofocus Cincinnati

How much does Fotofocus Cincinnati give?
Fotofocus Cincinnati reported 11 grants totaling $9,763 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Fotofocus Cincinnati fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (95%), Food & Nutrition (2%), Community Improvement (1%).
Who are Fotofocus Cincinnati's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Contemporary Arts Center ($83k), The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art ($3k), Freestore Foodbank Inc ($1k).
Does Fotofocus Cincinnati accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fotofocus Cincinnati?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Fotofocus Cincinnati based?
Fotofocus Cincinnati is based in OH.

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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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