· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of MAIN STREET VENTURES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $192,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $198,350 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,600 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 · 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 |
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
- GCGreater Cincinnati Microenterprisegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +40%
- OTOVER THE RHINE REVITALIZATION CORPORATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -91%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $75k
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cintrifuse and the most unlike its peers is Black Achievers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 212 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.
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: 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
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 Main Street Ventures 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.