· Public charity
Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati
To provide the leadership, funding, and resources necessary to support the diverse humanitarian efforts of the rotary club of cincinnati.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $212,597 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $323,284 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,687 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP ALLYNSTEPPING STONE CENTER | $142,937 |
| PROVISIONS ENTERPRISES LLC | $53,660 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI SLED HOCKEY | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +53% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- ACAUTISM CONNECTIONS5× · 2017–2022 · $161k · revenue +230%
- DSDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI5× · 2017–2022 · $161k · revenue +71%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- GMGAMBLE MONTESSORI ELEMENTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $29k
- GSGirl Scouts of Western Ohioone grant, 2020 · $24k · revenue +11%
- FCFC CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $14k · revenue +151%
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.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The cincinnati concours foundation produces a three day weekend of fundraisers to benefit the juvenile arthritis programs and services of the arthritis foundation ohio river valley/great lakes region
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
The mission of the organization is to connect students residing in greater cincinnati with post-high school scholarship opportunities to pursue their educational goals
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…
Nurture friendships and exchange ideas
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Welcomers community volunteer network of cincinnati usa/ northern kentucky is a network designed to connect area residents, who enjoy volunteering and welcoming visitors, with local attractions and arts, cultural and special events. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Cincinnati Sled Hockey. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 15 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 STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MARVIN LEWIS COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Community Matters Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Sled Hockey ↗
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: 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
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 Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati 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.