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Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati

To provide the leadership, funding, and resources necessary to support the diverse humanitarian efforts of the rotary club of cincinnati. The primary goal is to support children, particularly those whose future development is impaired by physical, cultural, emotional, financial and social obstacles. Also to support the civic and…

$323k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$213k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$53,660
Largest grant, FY2024
$142,937
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$7.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsSocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$213k75%
FY20234$200k75%
FY20225$484k20%
FY20213$210k0%
FY20204$181k50%
FY20194$265k0%
FY20185$250k20%
FY20175$351kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.6MHealth$349kRecreation & Sports$84kCommunity Improvement$43kEducation$36kYouth Development$24kHousing & Shelter$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stepping Stones Inc$1,612,13988%
Autism Connections$160,635518%
Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati$160,63553%
Provisions Enterprises LLC$53,6601n/a
Gamble Montessori Elementary Foundation$28,6561n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center$27,60040%
Marvin Lewis Community Fund$26,000266%
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio$23,54310%
Fc Cincinnati Foundation$14,00011%
Cincinnati Parks Foundation$10,00010%
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All grantees of Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Stepping Stones Inc$1,612,13988%
Autism Connections$160,635518%
Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati$160,63553%
Provisions Enterprises LLC$53,6601n/a
Gamble Montessori Elementary Foundation$28,6561n/a
Children's Hospital Medical Center$27,60040%
Marvin Lewis Community Fund$26,000266%
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio$23,54310%
Fc Cincinnati Foundation$14,00011%
Cincinnati Parks Foundation$10,00010%
Rotary Club of Cincinnati$9,70014%
The Alpaugh Family Economics Center for Education and Research$7,00010%
Community Matters Cincinnati Inc$7,00011%
Upspring$7,00011%
Cincinnati Sled Hockey$6,00013%

Where it is load-bearing

Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetStepping Stones Inc: $1,612,139 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetAutism Connections: $160,635 over 5y, 18% of budgetDown Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati: $160,635 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Medical Center: $27,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarvin Lewis Community Fund: $26,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio: $23,543 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFc Cincinnati Foundation: $14,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRotary Club of Cincinnati: $9,700 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetThe Alpaugh Family Economics Center for Education and Research: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Matters Cincinnati Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUpspring: $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCincinnati Sled Hockey: $6,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati

How much does Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati give?
Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati reported 4 itemized grants totaling $212,597, out of $323,284 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (75%), Health (16%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
Who are Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Stepping Stones Inc ($1.6M), Autism Connections ($161k), Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati ($161k).
Does Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati based?
Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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