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The 513 Fund Ima

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$166k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$133kHousing & Shelter$111kCommunity Improvement$106kYouth Development$42kHuman Services$32kEmployment$21kCrime & Legal$20kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI TOOLBANK$41,500
LOVE GROWS PROGRAM$20,000
LOGANS ELITES$20,000
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION$10,000
LEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES INC$10,000
SPRINGDALE OFFERING SUPPORT$10,000
CARACOLE INC$10,000
COMMUNITY MATTERS CINCINNATI INC$7,000
STARFIRE COUNCIL OF GREATER CINCINNATI$5,000
CINCINNATI REDS COMMUNITY FUND$5,000
1N5$5,000
ADVENTURE CREW$5,000
LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE$4,000
GAMBLE MONTESSORI HIGH SCHOOL$3,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $149k) 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%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $1k → 16%LEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES INC: $60k → 16%LEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES INC: $41k → 16%LEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES INC: $10k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY MATTERS CINCINNATI INC: $7k → 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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$396k · 11 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
18

Total granted

$396k
$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LR
    LEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $111k · revenue +50%
  • TL
    THE LOVE GROWS PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +13%
  • CF
    COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • M
    MEAC
    one grant, 2022 · $64k
  • TT
    THE TOOLBANK
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • IJ
    INTERFAITH JUSTICE AND PEACE CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
2
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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3
Creighton Community Foundation

Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and…

Philanthropy
4
Level Up Cincinnati

LUC's mission is to empower underserved students, particularly first-gen students from low-income families, to thrive in education and professional careers. The program addresses critical challenges faced by these students, such as higher…

Education
5
America Scores Cleveland

America scores cleveland inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, be engaged students, and have the confidence and character to make a difference in the world.

—
6
Cincinnati Union Cooperative Initiative

Cincinnati union cooperative initiative partners with individuals and other organizations to develop worker-owned businesses which provide family- sustaining jobs and create economy that works for all.

Social Science
7
Fotofocus Cincinnati
Arts & Culture
8
Hope Ignites Cincinnati

Hope Ignites Cincinnati nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…

—
9
Cincinnati Works

Cincinnati works brings hope and encouragement to people living in poverty while assisting them in advancing to self-sufficiency through employment. we provide free training and coaching services.

Human Services
10
Global Game Changers Children's Education Initiative Inc

Providing high quality, consistent and sustainable learning opportunities to all children, especially our most at-risk, that will help them develop the skills that they need to succeed in school and life.

Education
11
Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless

ERADICATION OF HOMELESSNESS: The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition is a unified social action agency, fully committed to its ultimate goal: the eradication of homelessness with respect for the dignity and diversity of its membership,…

Human Services
12
Cleveland Freedom Project

Youth-led Cultivators

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc; the most unlike its peers is Queen City Korfball. 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 44 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
9/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI TOOLBANK: $83,600 · OtherCINCINNATI TOOLBANKMEAC: $64,000 · OtherMEACLOGANS ELITES INC: $21,000 · OtherLOGANS ELITES INCTHE TOOLBANK: $20,500 · OtherTHE TOOLBANKINTERFAITH JUSTICE AND PEACE CENTER: $20,000 · OtherINTERFAITH JUSTICE AND PEACE CENTER1N5: $15,000 · OtherSPRINGDALE OFFERING SUPPORT: $10,000 · OtherPURCELL MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · Other+21 more: $49,100 · Other+21 moreLEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES INC: $111,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES IN…SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVI…LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICESCommunity Matters Cincinnati Inc: $7,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesNO EXCUSES COLLEGE TOURS: $83,200 · Youth DevelopmentNO EXCUSES COLLE…ADVENTURE CREW: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVENTURE CREW+1 more: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE LOVE GROWS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · EducationTHE LOVE …COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $15,000 · EducationCOOPERATI…PRINCETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationPRINCETON…CARACOLE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $8,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CINCINNATI REDS COMMUNITY FUND: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$293,200Human Services$149,000Youth Development$89,200Education$49,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Food & Nutrition$9,000Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLEGACY RESIDENTIAL HOMES INC: $111,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNO EXCUSES COLLEGE TOURS: $83,200 over 2y, 60% of budgetTHE LOVE GROWS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Matters Cincinnati Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRINCETON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOPHIE AND MADIGANS PLAYGROUND INC: $1,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS SERAPH MINISTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Whitewater: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…John a Schroth Family…United Way of Greater…Johnson Charitable Gi…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Carol Ann and Ralph V…L & L Nippert Charita…Millstone FundThe Thomas J Emery Me…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Robert H & Susan F Ca…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH26× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation

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 The 513 Fund Ima funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 513 Fund Ima. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • American Whitewater: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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How do I get to The 513 Fund Ima?

Find your warmest path to The 513 Fund Ima through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 44 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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