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Impact 100 Inc

The women of impact 100 dramatically improve lives in our greater cincinnati community by collectively funding transformational grants that make a lasting impact.

$394k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$1.1MEmployment$529kYouth Development$414kEducation$333kHealth$321kHousing & Shelter$305kFood & Nutrition$304kArts & Culture$208kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LASTMILE FOOD RESCUE$100,000
UPSPRING$100,000
CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY$100,000
CITYLINK CENTER$100,000
NAMI SW OHIO$10,000
OHIO JUSTICE & POLICY$10,000
BRIDGE ADAPTIVE SPORTS$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES HOME: $100k → 11%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $101k → 16%LIFE LEARNING CENTER: $101k → 11%FIRST STEP HOME: $101k → 16%SAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC: $100k → 11%THE HELP PROGRAM OF CINCINNATI: $15k → 16%REFUGEECONNECT: $104k → 16%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - CINCINNATI CHARITABLE PHARMACY: $109k → 16%SEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $104k → 16%CHANGING GEARS: $100k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $109k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Impact 100 Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Impact 100 Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

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Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
2
The Stride Center

As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…

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3
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
4
The Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati in

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
6
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.

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United Way of Cleveland County Inc

The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.

Philanthropy
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Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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Greater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers

Greater cleveland neighborhood centers association forges key partnerships with community based organizations to support educational programs and connect with residents and promote more

Community Improvement
10
Cleveland Mediation Center

Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…

Crime & Legal
11
Hancock-Hardin-Wyandot-Putnam Community Action Commission

To reduce the conditions of poverty by providing comprehensive services to improve lives.to accomplish the mission, hhwp cac will collect and analyze data on the nature of poverty and the existing resources in the area. hhwp cac will…

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Independent Living Options Inc

Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and the most unlike its peers is Nest Community Learning Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing ProvidersCincinnati Cultural & Commu…At-Risk Youth Residential C…Urban Neighborhood Redevelo…Community Food AccessAddiction Recovery ServicesCincinnati Performing Arts …School District FoundationsRegional Business Chambers
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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%34%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr15%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr15%15%35–55yr15%17%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
844/6,490

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

39 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. 39 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY OF CINCINNATI — $109,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMA…CINCINNATI WORKS — $109,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKSSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INC — $103,750 · Human ServicesSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INCRefugeeConnect — $103,750 · Human ServicesRefugeeConnectTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC — $101,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST STEP HOME INCLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $101,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICESLife Learning Center Inc — $101,000 · Human ServicesLife Learning Center IncYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INCSAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC — $100,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINICCHANGINGGEARS INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesCHANGINGGEARS INCNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK — $100,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $205,000 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFIL…POWER INSPIRES PROGRESS INC — $104,000 · OtherPOWER INSPIRES PROGRESS INCNorthern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc — $101,000 · OtherNorthern Kentucky Community A…CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC — $100,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INCWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $100,000 · OtherWOMEN HELPING WOMENBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc — $103,750 · OtherBreakthrough Cincinnati IncCITYLINK CENTER — $100,000 · OtherCITYLINK CENTERTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $68,000 · OtherTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDA…+5 more — $70,000 · Other+5 moreActivities Beyond the Classroom — $109,000 · EducationActivities B…OHIO VALLEY VOICES — $101,000 · EducationOHIO VALLEY …GATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationGATEWAY COMM…DOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL — $100,000 · EducationDOHN COMMUNI…NEST COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $109,000 · Food & NutritionNEST COMM…LA SOUPE INC — $104,000 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE …LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE — $100,000 · Food & NutritionLAST MILE…ADVENTURE CREW — $104,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVENTURE…Found Village — $101,000 · Youth DevelopmentFound Vil…UPSPRING — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentUPSPRINGWELCOME HOUSE INC — $104,000 · Housing & ShelterWELCOME H…PRICE HILL WILL — $101,000 · Housing & ShelterPRICE HIL…PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE WO…Wave Pool Corp — $104,000 · Arts & CultureKennedy Heights Arts Center — $103,750 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,143,500Other$951,750Education$410,000Food & Nutrition$313,000Youth Development$305,000Housing & Shelter$305,000Arts & Culture$207,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $205,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY OF CINCINNATI — $109,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom — $109,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWave Pool Corp — $104,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC — $104,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC — $104,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetPOWER INSPIRES PROGRESS INC — $104,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetKennedy Heights Arts Center — $103,750 over 1y, 14% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc — $103,750 over 1y, 24% of budgetSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INC — $103,750 over 1y, 10% of budgetRefugeeConnect — $103,750 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC — $101,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES — $101,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFound Village — $101,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $101,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRICE HILL WILL — $101,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNorthern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc — $101,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLife Learning Center Inc — $101,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetYOUTH ENCOURAGEMENT SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCITYLINK CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHANGINGGEARS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetUPSPRING — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN — $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK — $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI RECYCLING AND REUSE HUB — $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetHELP PROGRAM — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNAMI OF SOUTHWEST OHIO — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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 Cincinnat…United Way of Greater…John a Schroth Family…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Pfau Charitable Found…Johnson Charitable Gi…Millstone FundAndrew Jergens Founda…The Thomas J Emery Me…Sutphin Family Founda…Charles H Dater Found…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH65.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc

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 Impact 100 Inc 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
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no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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