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The Cincinnati Reds Community Fund

The reds community fund is dedicated to improving the lives of youths by leveraging the tradition of the cincinnati reds and the game of baseball.

$352k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$108k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Recreation & Sports$1.4MFood & Nutrition$296kEducation$30kHealth$25kEmployment$25kPhilanthropy$19kHuman Services$18kYouth Development$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $208k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL$108,411
AUGUSTA INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM$41,250
EASTER SEALS TRISTATE LLC$25,000
SERVICE SACRIFICE GRATITUDE INC$17,500
MADISONVILLE BRAVES YOUTH ORGANIZATION$10,000
BELLEVUE VETERANS CLUB INC$10,000
CINCINNATI DIAMONDBACKS$10,000
WEST END REDS$10,000
NORTH AVONDALE BOOSTER$10,000
POPE ATHLETICS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL: $203k → 7%Play Ball Indiana: $5k → 16%WARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $5k → 6%WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 9%Circleville Youth Baseball: $3k → 10%MCCOLLOUGH HYDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $10k → 12%ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: $57k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $16k → 7%BELLEVUE VETERANS CLUB INC: $10k → 10%AUGUSTA INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 15%PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL: $118k → 7%PLAY BALL INDIANA: $5k → 16%HUNTER YOUTH RECREATION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: $54k → 16%BELLEVUE VETERANS CLUB INC: $10k → 10%AUGUSTA INDEPENDENT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 15%Goodyear Little League: $3k → 11%PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL: $108k → 7%ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: $41k → 16%CITY OF GOODYEAR AZ: $3k → 11%PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL: $107k → 7%ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: $41k → 16%GOODYEAR LITTLE LEAGUE: $3k → 11%PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL & SOFTBALL: $87k → 7%ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: $35k → 16%SERVICE SACRIFICE GRATITUDE INC: $18k → 11%Pitch in for Baseball: $8k → 7%Activities Beyond the Classroom: $30k → 16%City of Goodyear AZ: $3k → 11%ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: $28k → 16%Marvin Lewis Community Fund: $8k → 16%EASTER SEALS TRISTATE LLC: $25k → 16%NORTH AVONDALE BOOSTER: $10k → 16%POPE ATHLETICS: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI DIAMONDBACKS: $10k → 16%POPE ATHLETICS: $10k → 16%TIMOTHY PATTON DBA NORTH AVONDALE BOOSTER: $10k → 16%WEST END REDS: $10k → 16%Village of Addyston: $3k → 16%Cincinnati Festival Alliance: $2k → 16%FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $125k → 16%FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $125k → 16%CITY OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%CITY OF CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%MADISONVILLE BRAVES YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $10k → 16%FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $46k → 16%MADISONVILLE BRAVES YOUTH ORGANIZATION: $10k → 16%Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati: $16k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 12 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+4%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEmploymentOther

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

  • AB
    Activities Beyond the Classroom
    7× · 2017–2024 · $286k · revenue +74%
  • BV
    BELLEVUE VETERANS CLUB INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +103%
  • IU
    INDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +359%

Funded once

  • WU
    WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +25%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2019 · $16k
  • YM
    Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +17%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Cleveland Baseball Federation

Cbf's mission is to provide the full funding of baseball so the city cleveland youth can experience the game of baseball and to provide leadership and promite social and educational values along the way

Recreation & Sports
2
Little League International

Youth baseball program for oakridege school district

Recreation & Sports
3
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…

Recreation & Sports
4
Cincy Flames Baseball Program Inc

To instill the integrity of the game of baseball into each player while helping them understand the greatness of the game. To allow each player to learn the many life lessons associated with the game of baseball. To guide and enhance the…

5
Upper Bucks Young Men's Christian Association

The upper bucks ymca, quakertown, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, has been serving the unique needs of the children, families and individuals in the quakertown, pennridge and palisades school districts in upper bucks county since 1968.…

6
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
7
Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland

To inspire and enable young people who need us most to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.

8
Babe Ruth League Inc

The babe ruth baseball/softball program, using regulation competitive baseball and softball rules, teaches skills, mental and physical development, and respect for the rules of the game, and basic ideals of sportsmanship and fair play. in…

Recreation & Sports
9
Citius Baseball Inc

Citius Baseball's mission is to engage the youth of our community through healthy athletic competition, to provide opportunities to learn and appreciate the sport of baseball and to encourage the development of life skills and personal…

10
Major League Baseball Charities Inc

To conduct activities to foster participation and interest in national or international amateur sports competition.

Philanthropy
11
Berkeley Little League

To provide instructional and competetive baseball for the youth of our community

12
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis

The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indianapolis Urban Youth Baseball & Softball Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joseph House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHousing and Support ServicesVeterans Fraternal Organiza…Youth Sports BoostersHealth System FoundationsCincinnati Regional Develop…Performing Arts Organizatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

04the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL — $629,656 · OtherPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALLAUGUSTA INDEPEDENT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherAUGUSTA INDEPEDENT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONCITY OF CINCINNATI — $150,000 · OtherCITY OF CINCINNATI+18 more — $167,000 · Other+18 moreActivities Beyond the Classroom — $286,362 · EducationActivities Beyond …WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationWILBERFORCE UNIVER…FREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $296,296 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK…Joseph House Inc — $15,346 · HealthMCCULLOUGH-HYDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCORPORATED — $10,000 · HealthEaster Seals Tristate — $25,000 · EmploymentYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati — $16,000 · PhilanthropyWARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyINDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCIRCLEVILLE YOUTH BASEBALL PROGRAM — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,146,656Education$306,362Food & Nutrition$296,296Health$25,346Employment$25,000Philanthropy$21,000Recreation & Sports$12,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPITCH IN FOR BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL — $629,656 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $296,296 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom — $286,362 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLEVUE VETERANS CLUB INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati — $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJoseph House Inc — $15,346 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMCCULLOUGH-HYDE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS URBAN YOUTH BASEBALL & SOFTBALL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMARVIN LEWIS COMMUNITY FUND — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWARREN COUNTY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN PHOENIX INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Children's Hospital Medical Center · Interact for Health · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 The Cincinnati Reds Community Fund 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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