· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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.
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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,…
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…
Through advocacy, partnerships, and high-quality programs, our dedicated team is breaking down barriers to equity and opportunity, while building self-sufficiency across generations.
To align community resources and generate insights that strengthen central ohio.
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.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
How this is measured
154 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. 154 of the 301 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hamilton Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hamilton Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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