· Public charity
Main Street Ventures
Promote regional economic development by providing a physical structure to start-up and emerging technology businesses; to educate the regional business communities on technology issues and opportunities; to provide a forum for the dissemination of ideas, technology, business practices, and other information among regional technology…
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALE TECHNOLOGIES | $30,000 |
| NOTEWORTHY CO | $17,000 |
| IDYLLWILD FARM | $13,000 |
| MPI CONSULTING | $10,000 |
| SKIN BY BROWNLEE | $10,000 |
| BIRDIE BOUND | $10,000 |
| THE RECIPE BOOK | $10,000 |
| METEORA3D | $10,000 |
| AARON WEARABLE TECH | $10,000 |
| AZELO LLC | $10,000 |
| STORM SECURED SERVICES | $10,000 |
| TASTE OF BOUJIE LLC | $10,000 |
| SILUX | $10,000 |
| SPORK SCIENTIFIC LLC | $10,000 |
| LYCEUM AI INC | $9,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABLACK ACHIEVERS INC4× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +116%
- CCintrifuse5× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +10%
- KEKENTUCKY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION NETWORK INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- OTOVER THE RHINE REVITALIZATION CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -91%
- GCGreater Cincinnati Microenterprisegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +40%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $75k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Cncy Made exists to build and support a vibrant manufacturing sector in the Greater Cincinnati region that sustains companies producing locally-made products, encourages entrepreneurship and innovation and creates employment opportunities…
Through workshops, training programs and technical assistance, we help social entrepreneurs build ventures that deliver social impact.
To stimulate business and networking relations between europe and the cincinnati tri-state region through education, exchanges, trade missions, increasing awareness, enhancing the region and europe's image, providing information &…
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
Aci's mission is to grow the cincinnati region's commercial construction industry.
Since its founding in 2011, The focus of the Center for Creative EconomyCCE has been to provide programming for inception and early-stage businesses to expand their ability to emerge as viable entrepeneurs. CCEs inclusive, customized…
Founded in 2015, zWORKS is a non-profit organization located in the heart of the Zionsville village that provides resources, programming, and shared work spaces for entrepreneurs, startups, freelancers and remote workers. The mission of…
How this is measured
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 212 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
Open a dossier: Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Raymond C and Anna T Johnson Foundation · First Financial Foundation · George & Margaret McLane Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Main Street Ventures funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Main Street Ventures. Bigger dots raise more.
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