· Public charity
Neediest Kids of All
To provide basic necessities for the area's needy children, scholarships for camp experience and to help defray the cost of school field trips.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 31 grants below total $583,541 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $804,120 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $220,579 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k16 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $160,000 |
| 1N5 | $50,000 |
| MINDPEACE | $40,000 |
| UPSPRING | $35,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $30,000 |
| PROKIDS | $25,000 |
| SAM HUBBARD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CANCER FAMILY CARE | $15,000 |
| PROJECT CONNECTACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM | $15,000 |
| CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY CAA | $15,000 |
| COVINGTON INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $14,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $12,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL ELEMENTARY | $10,000 |
| BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2026, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- MCMindPeace Cincinnati6× · 2021–2026 · $334k · revenue +95%
- YMYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati9× · 2017–2026 · $288k · revenue +17%
- UUPSPRING10× · 2017–2026 · $266k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- 4F4C For Children Incone grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -15%
- COCITY OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2019 · $105k
- HIHOPE IGNITESone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%
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.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
Every Child Succeeds is based on a strong scientific foundation demonstrating that a nurturing and stimulating environment in the first 1,000 days of life promotes optimal brain growth, cognitive development, psycho-social adjustment,…
Hope Ignites Cincinnati nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.
At School Board School, we are activating a diverse coalition of education advocates and aspiring school board members to create significant and sustainable change in their school system. We prepare them with the skills, mindsets,…
To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hispanics Avanzando Hispanics -- Dba Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 54 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 54 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 MindPeace Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds 1N5 ↗
- Who funds ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE JUVENILE DIVISIO HAMILTON COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEAS ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds 4C For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ADAMS AND BROWN COUNTIES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds Hispanics Avanzando Hispanics -- DBA Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sam Hubbard Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds WINTON WOODS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds SEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INC ↗
- Who funds Activities Beyond the Classroom ↗
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: United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Interact for Health · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Children's Hospital Medical Center · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Duke Energy 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 Neediest Kids of All 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.
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