· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 124 grants below total $17,127,542 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,619,412 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,491,870 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 $10k38 grants · $254k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+8 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center | $8,081,475 |
| Jewish Federations of North America | $1,860,357 |
| Mayerson JCC | $1,631,896 |
| Jewish Family Service | $929,273 |
| Rockwern Academy | $517,882 |
| JVS Careers | $366,000 |
| Camp Livingston | $302,615 |
| Cincinnati Hillel | $261,756 |
| Cincinnati Hebrew Day School | $216,756 |
| Adath Israel Congregation | $167,818 |
| Easter Seals TriState | $124,800 |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $106,018 |
| Isaac M Wise Temple | $93,855 |
| Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati | $89,460 |
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $89,332 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
146 repeat relationships — 92 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 24 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $305k 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
- TCThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education8× · 2017–2024 · $19M · revenue +284% · 71% of their budget
- JCJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +58%
- JFJewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +124%
Funded once
- JCJVS Career Servicesone grant, 2017 · $442k
- YMYOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENTone grant, 2018 · $77k · revenue +24%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +216% · 39% 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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
235 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. 235 of the 294 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 The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Yavneh Day School Association ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
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- Who funds Camp Ashreinu ↗
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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 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Cambridge Charitable Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Williams Foundation · The Northern Cincinnai Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington 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 Jewish Federation of Cincinnati 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Innocence Project of Florida Inc — 30% of income from government
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tampa Jccfederation Inc — 3% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Inner Fire Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Florida Holocaust Museum 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.