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Hamilton Community Foundation
The foundation receives contributions from donors in the community and then through the above gifts and grants enriches the community through strategic grant making in the fields of the arts, education, housing, social services, civic beautification, community development and recreation.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 142 grants below total $7,751,611 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,652,922 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,901,311 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $286k
- $10k–50k74 grants · $1.7M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $849k 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
- THTHE HAMILTON PARKS CONSERVANCY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +107% · 69% of their budget
- FCFITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +4% · 49% of their budget
- GMGREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +68%
Funded once
- PLPENCHURA LLCone grant, 2023 · $333k
- BCBUTLER COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2017 · $250k
- PCPRUS CONSTRUCTION LLCone grant, 2023 · $147k
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
To provide quality, culturally sensitive and accessible primary health care services focusing on the medically underserved, underinsured, and uninsured residing in northern hamilton county and surrounding areas.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
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,…
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Ohio hills health services is a non-profit health care operation, organized by communities in eastern ohio to promote healthy lifestyles and to provide preventative and comprehensive medical and dental care for area residents. the primary…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
Through advocacy, partnerships, and high-quality programs, our dedicated team is breaking down barriers to equity and opportunity, while building self-sufficiency across generations.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifespan Inc 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
154 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. 154 of the 301 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE HAMILTON PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HAMILTON OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAMILTON OHIO ↗
- Who funds FORT HAMILTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK &MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIRATION STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds Hamilton Symphony Orchestra Assoc ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY co GBR GROUP ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PUMPKINS INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY MONEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LIFESPAN INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Sweeten Life Systems ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BUTLER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON OHIO CITY OF SCULPTURE ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
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 Northern Cincinnai Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Hatton Foundation · Butler County United Way · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens 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 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.
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.