· Community foundation
Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky
To unite resources to raise the quality of life for all people in Northern Kentucky.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 136 grants below total $11,358,358 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $11,793,244 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $434,886 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 $10k25 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+8 grants · $6.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boone County Fiscal Court | $3,000,000 |
| EducateNKY | $700,000 |
| Catholic Leadership Institute | $602,500 |
| Covington Partners | $573,958 |
| Final Two Percent | $500,000 |
| LINK NKY | $323,732 |
| St Elizabeth Foundation | $274,500 |
| Xavier University | $253,600 |
| Catalytic Development Funding Corp of Northern Kentucky | $245,000 |
| Covington Life Sciences Partners Inc | $225,000 |
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $220,250 |
| St Cecilia School | $218,673 |
| Covington Latin School | $214,208 |
| One NKY Alliance | $190,000 |
| Master Provisions | $147,099 |
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 (FY18–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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 +24% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 44 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M 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
- SESt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +79%
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +136%
- CLCATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE3× · 2022–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +113%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $343k
- K4KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $288k · revenue -71%
- CCCALVARY CHIN BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $215k
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.
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To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Transforming generosity into impact by encouraging, supporting, and facilitating philanthropy to create more vibrant communities in northern cincinnati.
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As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Big Raise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
196 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. 196 of the 252 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 St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Final 2 Percent ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE NKY INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds CATALYTIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDING CORP OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE NKY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICES OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY 4H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MASTER PROVISIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LIFE SCIENCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BE CONCERNED INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET VENTURES ↗
- Who funds Wesley Community Services Organization ↗
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · The Butler Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Hcs Foundation · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008
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 Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky 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.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.