· Public charity
Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc
To recognize, celebrate and evaluate the construction industry and its contributions to the civic, aesthetic and economic well-being of the greater cincinnati region.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of SPIRIT OF CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $171,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $259,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $88,000 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 $10k6 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIED CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES | $90,000 |
| TRADES NKY | $15,000 |
| LEARNING GROVE | $13,000 |
| FELICITY-FRANKLIN SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,400 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $9,300 |
| CONSTRUCTION CAREER DAYS COMMITTEE | $7,500 |
| THE TOOLS PROGRAM | $7,500 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY COMMUNITY ACTION COMMISSION | $7,000 |
| CINCINNATI WORKS | $5,800 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN OHIO | $5,500 |
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, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $144k 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
- PIParity Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $260k · revenue +127% · 56% of their budget
- YOYWCA of Greater Cincinnati3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +42%
- NKNorthern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CCCAMPBELL COUNTY TECH CENTERone grant, 2019 · $10k
- GCGREATER CINCINNATI CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +38%
- OVOHIO VALLEY CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -5%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and the most unlike its peers is Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati dba Design Lab Learn & Build. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 CONSTRUCTION CAREER DAYS COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Parity Inc ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Tristate ↗
- Who funds ALLIED CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRIES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati dba Design LAB Learn & Build ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds CITYLINK CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds THE TOOLS PROGRAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER CINCINNATI CONSTRUCTION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · First Financial Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Trust Estate of George B Riley · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1
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 Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc 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.