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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. This includes such activites as honoring eminent contractors and their achievements, promoting and funding civic, educational and training ventures, which benefit…

$259k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Itemized grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$171k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$9,300
Largest grant, FY2024
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
EmploymentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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 arriving10$171k70%
FY20236$319k50%
FY20221$101k0%
FY20214$117k25%
FY20201$90k0%
FY20198$158k25%
FY20189$154k22%
FY20178$145kn/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.

Employment$757kHuman Services$294kYouth Development$155kEducation$27kHousing & Shelter$9kArts & Culture$7kCommunity Improvement$6k

Top grantees

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

Show all 20 grantees
All grantees of Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Construction Career Days Committee$516,500828%
Parity Inc$260,000356%
Easter Seals Tristate$106,00020%
Allied Construction Industries Cincinnati$90,00015%
Architectural Foundation of Cincinnati dba Design LAB Learn & Build$48,30044%
YWCA of Greater Cincinnati$33,50030%
Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc$25,58340%
Learning Grove Inc$20,50020%
Boy Scouts of America Council 438 Dan Beard$18,20020%
Citylink Center$16,00020%
Trades Nky LLC$15,0001n/a
Easter Seals Inc$13,00020%
Butler County United Way$12,30020%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati$9,30010%
The Tools Program Foundation$7,50012%
Ohio Valley Construction Education Foundation$7,50010%
Greater Cincinnati Construction Foundation Inc$7,50016%
Cincinnati Works$5,80010%
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio$5,50010%
Warren County Educational Service Center$4,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConstruction Career Days Committee: $516,500 over 8y, 28% of budgetParity Inc: $260,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $106,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAllied Construction Industries Cincinnati: $90,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetArchitectural Foundation of Cincinnati dba Design LAB Learn & Build: $48,300 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $33,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc: $25,583 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLearning Grove Inc: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 438 Dan Beard: $18,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCitylink Center: $16,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetButler County United Way: $12,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati: $9,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tools Program Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOhio Valley Construction Education Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Construction Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCincinnati Works: $5,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 18.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC21.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc

How much does Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc give?
Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc reported 10 itemized grants totaling $171,000, out of $259,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Employment (60%), Human Services (23%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Construction Career Days Committee ($517k), Parity Inc ($260k), Easter Seals Tristate ($106k).
Does Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Duke Energy Foundation, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, Charles H Dater Foundation Inc.
Where is Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc based?
Spirit of Construction Foundation of Greater Cincinnati Inc is based in KY.

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 23 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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