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Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

$32M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$5.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$58MFood & Nutrition$456kCrime & Legal$9k
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $29,822,212, the rows itemized in this filing. The $31,538,939 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,716,727 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $292k
  • $250k+15 grants · $29M
$714,030
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Talbert House: $2.8M → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $2.6M → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $2.6M → 16%Talbert House: $2.4M → 16%Society of St Vincent de Paul: $88k → 16%Community Matters: $31k → 16%YWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $1.3M → 16%YWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $1.2M → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel dba HER: $11k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 17 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$58M
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+110%

Still filing today

94%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthReligionFood & NutritionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SV
    Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9.6M · revenue +12% · 55% of their budget
  • BH
    Bethany House Services Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +23% · 43% of their budget
  • LY
    LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CU
    Cincinnati Union Bethelgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue +110%
  • PO
    PRINCE OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
2
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
3
Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services

Home-first offers permanent solutions to homelessness by providing transitional housing and permanent housing, homelessness prevention assitance and support services to strengthen families and build commun

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4
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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5
United Church Residences of Delaware

To Provide Safe and Affordable Housing for Low-Income Persons.

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6
Lifetime Housing Group Inc

Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.

Food & Nutrition
7
Illumination Health Home formerly the Illumination Foundation

Our vision is to break the cycle of homelessness. Our public/private partnership combines healthcare and mental health services with housing and social services to reduce the impacts of homelessness and reduce people's vulerability to…

Human Services
8
Columbus House Inc

Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. we advocate for and create affordable housing to…

Housing & Shelter
9
Samaritan House Inc

Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.

Housing & Shelter
10
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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11
Welcome House Inc

Welcome house provides a continuum of services to end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.

Housing & Shelter
12
Exodus Housing

To serve diverse households fleeing domestic violence with equitable, client-centered services that are inclusive, foster long-term self-sufficiency and promote access to permanent housing and community resources.hope - through compassion…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tender Mercies Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $9,635,797 · Housing & ShelterShelterhouse Volunteer Group IncBethany House Services Inc: $9,541,496 · Housing & ShelterBethany House Services IncEXCEL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC: $4,292,759 · Housing & ShelterEXCEL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INCCARACOLE INC: $3,410,525 · Housing & ShelterCARACOLE INCOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING: $3,366,396 · Housing & ShelterOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSINGLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5,283,680 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICESTALBERT HOUSE: $5,226,712 · Human ServicesTALBERT HOUSEYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $2,510,845 · Human ServicesYWCA of Greater Cincinnat…+3 more: $129,998 · Human ServicesTENDER MERCIES INC: $2,610,723 · OtherTENDER MERCIES…OHIO VALLEY GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $1,428,062 · OtherOHIO VALLEY GO…INDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC: $1,210,621 · OtherINDEPENDENT LI…NCR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SERVICE: $993,053 · OtherNCR PERMANENT …Northern Kentucky Health Department: $855,920 · OtherNorthern Kentu…CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $303,540 · Other+2 more: $15,343 · OtherFound House-Interfaith Housing Network: $6,685,301 · ReligionFound House-I…FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $455,916 · Food & NutritionGreater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: $56,041 · HealthCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $43,335 · Health
Housing & Shelter$30,246,973Human Services$13,151,235Other$7,417,262Religion$6,685,301Food & Nutrition$455,916Health$99,376

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $9,635,797 over 2y, 55% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $9,541,496 over 2y, 43% of budgetFound House-Interfaith Housing Network: $6,685,301 over 2y, 75% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $5,283,680 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $5,226,712 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetEXCEL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY INC: $4,292,759 over 2y, 23% of budgetCARACOLE INC: $3,410,525 over 2y, 13% of budgetOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING: $3,366,396 over 2y, 21% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $2,610,723 over 2y, 33% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $2,510,845 over 2y, 13% of budgetOHIO VALLEY GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $1,428,062 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING OPTIONS INC: $1,210,621 over 2y, 32% of budgetNCR PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SERVICE: $993,053 over 2y, 12% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $455,916 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $303,540 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $87,858 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: $56,041 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $43,335 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCommunity Matters Cincinnati Inc: $31,140 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati: $8,615 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Cincinnat…United Way of Greater…Spaulding FoundationJohn a Schroth Family…Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlap…The Wohlgemuth Hersch…Sutphin Family Founda…The Thomas J Emery Me…Interact for HealthCarol Ann and Ralph V…Duke Energy FoundationJohnson Charitable Gi…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH35.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Strategies to End Homelessness Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strategies to End Homelessness Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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