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· Public charity
MOST VALUABLE KIDS OF GREATER CINCINNATI
To promote and further an appreciation of sports and cultural activities for underpriviledged, needy and less fortunate children under age 18.
$373k
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $373,155.
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Median grant
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States reached
$434k
Total assets
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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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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Youth Guidance
Youth Guidance creates and implements school-based programs that enable children to overcome obstacles, focus on their education and, ultimately, to succeed in school and in life.
Education
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Big Brothers Big Sisters
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
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Cunningham Childrens Home of Urbana Il
Provide therapeutic services to youth in educational, community, & residential care settings.
Human Services
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Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth.
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Children's Bureau Inc
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Human Services
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central
To help children reach their potential through professionally supported one-to-one relationships with measurable impact.
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Child Guidance Center Inc
The center provides counseling services for the treatment and prevention of behavioral health issues and related problems to children, adolescents, and their families.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Youth Development
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Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
Human Services
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Big Brothers Big Sisters
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Youth Development
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The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio
The mission of The Children's Home is: Creating lasting results that strengthen families and our community by guiding individuals from infancy to independence through comprehensive education, behavioral, and health services.
Human Services
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Chicago Youth Programs Inc
Tutoring and mentoring programs for inner city youth.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Ladies of Leadership Ohio Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
3%1/29
the rest of the field
10%
799/7,628
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.
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 Cincinnati FoundationOH38.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Millstone Fund · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Andrew Jergens Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Pfau Charitable Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Interact for Health
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.
04Through Plinth
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines