· Public charity
Invest in Neighborhoods Inc
To empower community councils and their resident members, volunteers, and related community organizations to contribute to civic live and advance the quality of life in Cincinnatis neighorboods, by increasing capacities and competencies, assisting with resources, and promoting civic engagement.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Downtown Resident's Council | $8,250 |
| Linwood Community Council | $8,250 |
| Riverside Civic & Welfare Club | $8,250 |
| Westwood Civic Association | $8,250 |
| Walnut Hills Area Council | $8,250 |
| Columbia-Tusculum Community Council | $8,250 |
| Avondale Community Council | $8,250 |
| Corryville Community Council | $8,250 |
| Roselawn Community Council | $8,250 |
| East End Area Council | $8,250 |
| North Fairmount Community Council | $8,250 |
| Village of Roll Hill | $8,250 |
| Mt Airy Town Council | $8,250 |
| CUF Neighborhood Association | $8,250 |
| Sayler Park Village Council | $8,250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- MLMT LOOKOUT CIVIC CLUB3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +15% · 36% of their budget
- CTCLIFTON TOWN MEETING3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +50%
- TNThe Northside Community Council3× · 2023–2025 · $16k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- FCFAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL2× · 2024–2025 · $8k
- MAMT AIRY TOWN COUNCIL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $8k
- WPWest Price Hill Community Councilgraduated2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +66% · 64% of their budget
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.
To advocate, promote, and protect Old Louisville's historic architecture and streetscapes within a diverse neighborhood of residents and businesses while advancing artistic and cultural events to build community.
Nurture friendships and exchange ideas
Community liter control, recycling and beautification
We are the Neighborhood Associations under the auspices of the City of North Charleston. We offer a place to meet to exchange information, create community engagements projects and propose solutions for the community
To combat community deterioration
We offer community development programs that are free and open to the public.
We are working together to make the south end better for everyone in the south end with a focus on community gardens, art installments, and outreach
To Maintain and Preserve Commun
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Walnut Hills Assembly and the most unlike its peers is Mt Lookout Civic Club. 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 26 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 48 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
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 EAST WALNUT HILLS ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds OAKLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MT LOOKOUT CIVIC CLUB ↗
- Who funds CLIFTON TOWN MEETING ↗
- Who funds AVONDALE COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MT ADAMS CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT HILLS AREA COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Columbia Tusculum Community Council ↗
- Who funds ROSELAWN COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
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: Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Invest in Neighborhoods 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.
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.