· Public charity
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $29,822,212 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $31,538,939 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,716,727 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 · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $292k
- $250k+15 grants · $29M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bethany House Services | $5,326,538 |
| Shelter House Volunteer Group | $4,441,241 |
| Found House Interfaith Hospitality Network | $3,523,038 |
| Talbert House | $2,838,790 |
| Lighthouse Youth Services Inc | $2,635,851 |
| Excel Development Co Inc | $1,885,126 |
| Caracole Inc | $1,829,817 |
| Over-the-Rhine Community Housing | $1,741,837 |
| Tender Mercies Inc | $1,351,577 |
| YWCA of Greater Cincinnati | $1,325,139 |
| Ohio Valley Goodwill Industries Rehabilitation Center | $714,030 |
| Independent Living Options Inc dba Independence Alliance | $622,657 |
| National Church Residences | $502,140 |
| Northern Kentucky Health Department | $469,308 |
| Free Store Food Bank | $264,192 |
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 (FY23–24, $13.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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
- SVShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +12% · 55% of their budget
- BHBethany House Services Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +23% · 43% of their budget
- LYLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES2× · 2023–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CUCincinnati Union Bethelgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +110%
- POPRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tender Mercies Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cincinnati Union Bethel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 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. 21 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 Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Found House-Interfaith Housing Network ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TALBERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EXCEL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CARACOLE INC ↗
- Who funds OVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NCR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Matters Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Spaulding Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Interact for Health · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund
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 Strategies to End Homelessness 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.