Ohio · 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.
- $804k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 31
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $584k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $9,487
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $5.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 14% of the organizations Neediest Kids of All funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 31 | $584k | 32% |
| FY2025 | 21 | $598k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $373k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $449k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $769k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $304k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $274k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $378k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati City School District | $1,175,000 | 10 | n/a |
| MindPeace Cincinnati | $334,204 | 6 | 19% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati | $288,013 | 9 | 0% |
| Upspring | $266,000 | 10 | 6% |
| 1n5 | $175,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Advisory Council to the Juvenile Divisio Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas | $125,000 | 5 | 99% |
| ProKids | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| 4C For Children Inc | $120,125 | 1 | 2% |
| Hamilton County - Board of Elections | $115,000 | 10 | n/a |
| Covington Independent Public Schools | $115,000 | 10 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati City School District | $1,175,000 | 10 | n/a |
| MindPeace Cincinnati | $334,204 | 6 | 19% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati | $288,013 | 9 | 0% |
| Upspring | $266,000 | 10 | 6% |
| 1n5 | $175,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Advisory Council to the Juvenile Divisio Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas | $125,000 | 5 | 99% |
| ProKids | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| 4C For Children Inc | $120,125 | 1 | 2% |
| Hamilton County - Board of Elections | $115,000 | 10 | n/a |
| Covington Independent Public Schools | $115,000 | 10 | n/a |
| City of Cincinnati | $105,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lewis County | $92,000 | 10 | n/a |
| Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency | $81,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Pendleton County Schools | $74,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Erlanger-Elsmere Independent School District | $67,100 | 7 | n/a |
| Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc | $61,129 | 6 | 0% |
| Edgewood City Schools | $57,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Adams and Brown Counties Economic Opportunities | $57,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio | $56,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hispanics Avanzando Hispanics -- DBA Hispanic Chamber Cincinnati Foundation | $55,000 | 6 | 10% |
| The Salvation Army | $44,367 | 6 | n/a |
| Warren County Educational Service Center | $40,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Southgate Independent School District | $36,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Mt Healthy City School District | $36,000 | 5 | n/a |
| lakota local school district | $35,175 | 5 | n/a |
| Sam Hubbard Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Tichenor Youth Service Center | $33,700 | 6 | n/a |
| Freestore Foodbank Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Adams County Ohio Valley Schools | $27,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul Council | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc | $22,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Winton Woods Educational Foundation | $20,500 | 3 | 40% |
| Cancer Family Care Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Western Ohio | $19,819 | 3 | 0% |
| Hamilton County EducSrvCtr | $19,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Great Miami Valley YMCA | $16,300 | 3 | 0% |
| Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses Inc | $15,340 | 3 | 1% |
| Gallatin Co Elementary School | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Activities Beyond the Classroom | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Dayton | $13,194 | 2 | 0% |
| YMCA Camp Kern | $11,693 | 2 | n/a |
| Hope Ignites | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bethany House Services Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Campbell County Board of Education | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Middletown City School District | $6,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Kenton County Board of Education | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Romero Academy | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| West Clermont Local Schools | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Neediest Kids of All supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Neediest Kids of All
- How much does Neediest Kids of All give?
- Neediest Kids of All reported 31 itemized grants totaling $583,541, out of $804,120 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Neediest Kids of All fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (43%), Youth Development (13%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Neediest Kids of All's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Cincinnati City School District ($1.2M), MindPeace Cincinnati ($334k), Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati ($288k).
- Does Neediest Kids of All fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Neediest Kids of All?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Cincinnati, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Interact for Health.
- Where is Neediest Kids of All based?
- Neediest Kids of All is based in OH.
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