How much does Hcs Foundation give?

Hcs Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $7,756,444 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Hcs Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Health (22%), Education (21%).

Who are Hcs Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($3.9M), Xavier University ($2.6M), Zoological Society of Cincinnati ($2.3M).

Does Hcs Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hcs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hcs Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

Hcs Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 75
Grants FY2024: 51
Organizations funded FY2023: 27%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $40,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,000,000
Organizations funded a year: 49 to 57; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $105M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Hcs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	62	$7.8M	27%
FY2023	51	$8.0M	27%
FY2022	52	$8.0M	42%
FY2021	57	$6.8M	49%
FY2020	49	$6.1M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$8.1MHealth$8.0MEducation$7.7MHuman Services$3.2MAnimals$2.3MYouth Development$2.0MHousing & Shelter$1.0MReligion$772kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$3,900,000	5	4%
Xavier University	$2,600,000	4	0%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati	$2,250,000	5	1%
The Christ Hospital Foundation	$2,040,000	3	19%
Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope	$1,500,000	3	1%
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc	$1,250,000	5	3%
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati	$1,222,000	5	3%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$1,000,000	1	1%
Accelerate Great Schools	$1,000,000	1	2%
Cincinnati Museum Center	$874,122	5	1%

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All grantees of Hcs Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$3,900,000	5	4%
Xavier University	$2,600,000	4	0%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati	$2,250,000	5	1%
The Christ Hospital Foundation	$2,040,000	3	19%
Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope	$1,500,000	3	1%
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc	$1,250,000	5	3%
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati	$1,222,000	5	3%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$1,000,000	1	1%
Accelerate Great Schools	$1,000,000	1	2%
Cincinnati Museum Center	$874,122	5	1%
Summit Country Day School US Catholic Conference	$761,458	5	n/a
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc	$650,000	2	5%
Cincinnati Cancer Foundation Inc	$635,000	4	9%
Xavier Jesuit Academy	$625,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park	$500,000	4	1%
Bethany House Services Inc	$500,000	3	2%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati	$500,000	1	3%
Ccpro Foundation	$475,000	5	5%
Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc	$460,000	2	3%
Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired	$450,000	2	2%
Anthony Munoz Foundation	$449,000	5	17%
Cise	$445,000	5	5%
Good Samaritan Hospital Free Clinic	$416,000	2	24%
Hands Together Inc	$400,000	2	7%
Cincinnati Museum Association	$400,000	4	0%
Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati	$400,000	1	14%
St Francis Xavier Church	$384,000	2	n/a
Main Street Ventures	$333,333	2	14%
Lighthouse Youth Services	$302,500	3	1%
Green Umbrella	$300,000	1	5%
Mount St Joseph University	$300,000	3	0%
Freestore Foodbank Inc	$300,000	4	0%
Ken Anderson Alliance	$298,710	5	6%
St Edward High School	$265,500	3	n/a
ProKids	$261,328	4	1%
Taft Museum of Art	$260,000	2	3%
Ohio State University Foundation	$250,000	1	0%
Valley View Foundation	$250,000	1	48%
Magnified Giving	$250,000	1	38%
Santa Maria Community Services Inc	$250,000	1	3%
Stepping Stones Inc	$238,807	1	5%
Optim-All Services	$230,500	3	8%
Star House	$200,142	2	3%
Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc	$200,000	1	11%
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education	$200,000	5	5%
Cincinnati Baseball Museum	$195,000	3	10%
Foundation for Talbert House	$175,000	4	5%
Cristo Rey Columbus High School	$172,000	1	n/a
Wesley Community Services Organization	$166,667	1	1%
Ohio Valley Voices	$150,000	3	1%
Catholic Leadership Institute	$150,000	2	1%
American Heart Association Inc	$150,000	2	0%
Disabled American Veterans	$150,000	1	0%
St Vincent de Paul Community Pharmacy of Cincinnati	$150,000	3	0%
Last Mile Food Rescue	$150,000	4	10%
Beech Acres	$137,500	2	0%
Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati Dba Queen City Book Bank	$125,000	2	7%
Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc	$125,000	2	2%
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts	$125,000	4	0%
Springer School and Center	$125,000	1	1%
Cincinnati Works	$122,500	2	2%
Mustard Seed Communities Inc	$120,000	1	2%
The Dragonfly Foundation	$100,000	1	6%
Adopt A Class Foundation Inc	$100,000	4	11%
Seton Education Partners	$100,000	1	0%
Franklin County Historical Society Dba Cosi Columbus	$100,000	1	1%
Beechwood Home	$100,000	2	0%
Women Helping Women	$100,000	1	3%
Miami University Foundation	$100,000	1	0%
Great Parks Forever	$100,000	2	2%
Columbus Works Inc	$100,000	1	13%
De Paul Cristo Rey High School	$100,000	1	n/a
Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio	$95,000	5	3%
Interlochen Center for the Arts	$90,000	1	0%
The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation	$90,000	3	3%
Easter Seals Tristate	$85,000	1	0%
Coverd Greater Cincinnati	$80,000	2	4%
Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired	$75,000	1	1%
Ballet Metropolitan Inc	$75,000	1	1%
Huron Pines Resource Conservation & Development Council Inc	$56,960	1	1%
Georgetown University	$55,000	3	0%
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc	$55,000	2	0%
Society of St Vincent de Paul Council	$51,500	2	0%
Uss Cincinnati Commissioning Foundation	$50,500	1	n/a
Lydia's House Inc	$50,000	1	5%
Life Learning Center Inc	$50,000	1	4%
American Jewish Committee	$50,000	3	0%
Leadership Council for Nonprofits	$45,000	3	7%
Dress for Success Cincinnati	$44,500	2	2%
St Francis Seraph Ministries	$40,000	2	3%
Jackson Center for Conductive Education	$38,000	1	7%
Junior Achievement of Central Ohio Inc	$35,000	2	1%
The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation	$35,000	1	3%
Childhood Food Solutions	$30,000	2	5%
Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society	$30,000	1	4%
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative	$25,000	1	1%
La Soupe Inc	$25,000	1	0%
America's River Roots Experience	$25,000	1	4%
Refuge Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Pregnancy Center Plus Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Ispace Inc	$25,000	1	4%
The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio	$25,000	1	0%
The Greater Cincinnati Arts & Education Center	$25,000	1	1%
Cincinnati Parks Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Fernside Inc a Center for Grieving Children	$20,000	2	2%
My Special Word	$18,000	1	13%
Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy	$15,000	1	1%
Cincinnati Nature Center	$12,500	3	0%
International Mountain Bicycling Association	$12,500	1	8%
Sam Hubbard Foundation	$12,000	1	1%
Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated	$10,000	1	0%
Cincinnati Fire Museum	$10,000	1	3%
Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
CISE Foundation	$10,000	2	1%
Center for Respite Care Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Cincinnati Bar Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Pelotonia	$5,000	1	0%
Boy Scouts of America Council 438 Dan Beard	$5,000	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$4,000	1	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($747k), not named here.

Hcs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 112 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 112.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH100.6× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Farmer Family Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Louise Taft Semple 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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About Hcs Foundation

How much does Hcs Foundation give?: Hcs Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $7,756,444 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Hcs Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (22%), Health (22%), Education (21%).
Who are Hcs Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($3.9M), Xavier University ($2.6M), Zoological Society of Cincinnati ($2.3M).
Does Hcs Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hcs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hcs Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation.
Where is Hcs Foundation based?: Hcs Foundation is based in OH.