How much did HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

notre dametruthstudentsgoodanimateddiscussionscholars

2019

notre dameperformance producttruthrenovationstudentsanimateddiscussion

2020

urbanvibrantrenovationlegalperformance productaffordableinspire

2021

birmingham-southernbenefitimportantusesissuesparentingvariety

2022

sportsmark evangelistevangelist churchdistributorsgrouptouringlegal

2023

baptist healthministriesparentsgroupsconferencegardenconstruction

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 142 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k40 grants · $286k
$10k–50k74 grants · $1.7M
$50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
$250k+5 grants · $3.7M

$16,000

Median grant

States reached

$167M

Total assets

Largest grants

STEPHEN T BADIN HIGH SCHOOL$2,384,690
GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA$498,639
FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS$323,974
ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION$273,025
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAMILTON$256,789
CITY OF HAMILTON$203,640
POWER LIFT - CONNOR ATHLETIC$165,876
HAMILTON PARKS CONSERVANCY$164,890
BUTLER TECHNOLOGY AND CAREER$150,216
HAMILTON CITY SCHOOLS$120,752
HAMILTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP$113,797
PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK$109,146
BUTLER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE$102,000
YWCA HAMILTON$99,798
INSPIRATION STUDIOS INC$90,058

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$34M · 150 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

150 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 46 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150

107

Total granted

$34M

$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+39%

Still filing today

57%

37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $859k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther

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

HP
HAMILTON PARKS CONSERVENCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +107% · 69% of their budget
FC
FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +40% · 49% of their budget
GM
GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA - CAMP CAMPBELL GARD
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +10%

Funded once

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $569k · revenue +160%
PL
PENCHURA LLC
one grant, 2023 · $333k
BC
BUTLER COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
one grant, 2017 · $250k

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

04Your field

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.

OhioHealth Corporation

Our mission is to improve the health of those we serve.

Health

Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stages of life.

Human Services

United Way of Greater Cincinnati

The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.

Philanthropy

Ohio Living Communities

To provide older adults with caring and quality services toward the enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well being consistent with the christian gospel.

Human Services

Life Connection of Ohio

Secure organ and tissue donors and coordinate transplant services.

Health

Southwest Ohio Region Workforce Investment Board

Dedicated to providing employers with a prepared workforce by connecting job-seeking customers to opportunities that build their career readinesss, thereby contributing to the growth of our community and region.

Employment

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture

The University of Cincinnati Foundation

To inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy.

Philanthropy

Jewish Family Service of the

Provide counseling, support economic well-being and provide aging services.

Human Services

The Healthcare Connection Inc

Federally qualified health center that provides primary healthcare services to the medically indigent population of hamilton county, ohio.

—

Habitat for Humanity of Greater

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of greater cincinnati brings people together to build homes, communities and hope in the tri-state area.

Housing & Shelter

Jewish Community Center of Cincinnati

The Mayerson JCC provides cultural, social, educational and recreational programs to the Jewish Community and general community of Greater Cincinnati.

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Butler County United Way and the most unlike its peers is Jee Foods. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%3/287

the rest of the field

6,873/74,019

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

155 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

149/155

Grantees still filing

117/155

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$24,442,770Arts & Culture$4,299,721Environment$3,017,631Human Services$2,715,052Health$1,642,516Animals$1,207,580Philanthropy$981,398

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH55.7× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Northern Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Butler County United Way · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Hatton Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc · Josephine S Russell Charitable

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 organisation HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HAMILTON OHIO CITY OF SCULPTURE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 311744687 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HAMILTON OHIO CITY OF SCULPTURE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Hamilton Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hamilton Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

155 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hamilton Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

155 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Hamilton Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph