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Green Umbrella

GREEN UMBRELLA's mission is to lead cross-sector collaboration to accelerate climate action across greater cincinnati.

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$114k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$10MFood & Nutrition$352kRecreation & Sports$210kEnvironment$104kSocial Science$59kArts & Culture$23kEducation$20k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $113,688, the rows itemized in this filing. The $122,188 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,500 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.
$113,688
Median grant
1
States reached
$534k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRI-STATE TRAILS$113,688
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 (FY18–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Enright Ridge Urban Eco-Village: $8k → 16%BRIDGES OF FAITH TRIALOGUE: $25k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 5 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +204% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
15

Total granted

$9.7M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+204%
+20%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionPublic BenefitEducationSocial ScienceEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CU
    CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $109k · revenue +204%
  • LS
    LA SOUPE INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +790%
  • IK
    INCUBATOR KITCHEN COLLECTIVE
    2× · 2018–2020 · $28k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2022 · $1.1M
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $74k · revenue +5%
  • OL
    Our Lady of Grace Catholic School
    one grant, 2020 · $42k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Cleveland Owns

Cleveland Owns is an economic Democracy incubator that launches cooperative businesses and organizes campaigns for community control of resources.

Community Improvement
2
Sustainable Growers
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3
Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition

Green Chicago Restaurant Coalition's Guaranteed Green Sustainability Education Program educates foodservice operators about assessing the present state of their operation's environmental sustainability and helps them to develop a plan to…

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4
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
5
Coalition On Agricultural Greenhouse Gases

The c-agg multi-stakeholder coalition builds sustainable agriculture and climate change mitigation capacity that accelerates change across organizations, sectors and regions.

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6
Greater Dayton Union Cooperative Initiative Inc

Greater dayton union cooperative initiative inc incubates cooperative businesses to create and retain good jobs in our region, building a local economy that works for all.

Community Improvement
7
Chicago's Green City Market Program

Green city market is securing the future of food by deepening support for sustainable farmers, educating our community, and expanding access to locally-grown food.

Food & Nutrition
8
Idea Works Inc

Our mission to rebuild the local food chain Food matters to us. So much so that part of our mission involves supporting and rebuilding our local food chain. We collaborate with Richland Gro-Op, and The Ohio State University at Mansfield in…

Community Improvement
9
Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub

Through workshops, training programs and technical assistance, we help social entrepreneurs build ventures that deliver social impact.

Philanthropy
10
Common Good Alliance

Founded by a group of passionate individuals, CGA champions the cause of economic and cultural equity within our vibrant communities. Since its inception, CGA has committed itself to fostering flourishing neighborhoods, ensuring that every…

Community Improvement
11
Corporation for Findlay Market

We honor the history of Findlay Market, expand access to fresh food and support a broad range of small business owners in order to steward a vibrant public market for current and future generations.

Community Improvement
12
Organic Association of Kentucky

To improve the health of the environment and communities by advancing organic regenerative agriculture to grow ecological resilience, economic viability and socially just futures for kentucky farmers through educational, technical and…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is Incubator Kitchen Collective. 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tri-State Trails dba CROWN Cincinnati: $9,302,338 · Public BenefitTri-State Trails dba CROWN CincinnatiCITY OF CINCINNATI: $1,115,000 · OtherCITY OF CINCIN…Local Food Connection: $193,174 · OtherLocal Food Con…+9 more: $148,295 · Other+9 moreCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE: $109,055 · Social ScienceXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $74,000 · EducationLA SOUPE INC: $31,500 · Food & NutritionINCUBATOR KITCHEN COLLECTIVE: $28,000 · Food & NutritionEQUASION: $25,275 · Human ServicesTENDING ROOTS ECO-COLLABORATIVE INC: $8,367 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $23,453 · Arts & CultureGREEN UMBRELLA: $13,296 · Environment
Public Benefit$9,302,338Other$1,456,469Social Science$109,055Education$74,000Food & Nutrition$59,500Human Services$33,642Arts & Culture$23,453Environment$13,296

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTri-State Trails dba CROWN Cincinnati: $9,302,338 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetCINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE: $109,055 over 3y, 16% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $74,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $31,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINCUBATOR KITCHEN COLLECTIVE: $28,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetEQUASION: $25,275 over 1y, 18% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $23,453 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $13,296 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGABRIEL'S PLACE: $7,750 over 1y, 6.7% 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.

  • Who funds Tri-State Trails dba CROWN Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
  • Who funds INCUBATOR KITCHEN COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds EQUASION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GREEN UMBRELLA ↗
  • Who funds TENDING ROOTS ECO-COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds GABRIEL'S PLACE ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

The Greater Cincinnat…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati 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 Green Umbrella funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Green Umbrella. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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