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.

Neediest Kids of All

Neediest Kids of All at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2026still arriving

Grants FY2026still arriving

States reached

$160k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$1.8MYouth Development$549kHuman Services$437kHealth$429kCrime & Legal$290kRecreation & Sports$282kArts & Culture$140kFood & Nutrition$80kOther$0

02FY2026 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 31 grants below total $583,541, the rows itemized in this filing. The $804,120 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $220,579 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

Under $10k16 grants · $118k
$10k–50k13 grants · $256k
$50k–250k2 grants · $210k

$9,487

Median grant

States reached

$5.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
PROJECT CONNECTACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM	$15,000
CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY CAA	$15,000
CANCER FAMILY CARE	$15,000
COVINGTON INDEPENDENT PUBLIC SCHOOLS	$14,000
BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI	$12,000
HAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC DEFENDER	$10,000
BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES	$10,000
CENTRAL ELEMENTARY	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.8M · 38 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.8M

$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%

+19%

Still filing today

55%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

MC
MindPeace Cincinnati
6× · 2021–2026 · $334k · revenue +95%
YM
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati
9× · 2017–2026 · $288k · revenue +17%
U
UPSPRING
10× · 2017–2026 · $266k · revenue +96%

Funded once

4F
4C For Children Inc
one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -15%
CO
CITY OF CINCINNATI
one grant, 2019 · $105k
HI
HOPE IGNITES
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +19%

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.

04Its field

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.

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education

Every Child Succeeds

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,…

Human Services

Hope Ignites Cincinnati

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…

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Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health

OhioGuidestone

To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.

Health

School Board School

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,…

Education

Cincinnati Aquatic Club

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…

Recreation & Sports

Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services

Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

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…

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Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy

Ywca Dayton

YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

23/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,620,554Philanthropy$583,013Education$375,204Youth Development$320,819Human Services$203,640Civil Rights$125,000Environment$61,129

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.

United Way of Greater CincinnatiOH47.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Neediest Kids of All funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neediest Kids of All. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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