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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BELLEVUE VETERANS CLUB INC$10,000
CINCINNATI DIAMONDBACKS$10,000
WEST END REDS$10,000
NORTH AVONDALE BOOSTER$10,000
POPE ATHLETICS$10,000
MADISONVILLE BRAVES YOUTH ORGANIZATION$10,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%CITY OF GOODYEAR AZ: $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%Goodyear Little League: $3k → 11%ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: $28k → 16%Marvin Lewis Community Fund: $8k → 16%EASTER SEALS TRISTATE LLC: $25k → 16%POPE ATHLETICS: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI DIAMONDBACKS: $10k → 16%NORTH AVONDALE BOOSTER: $10k → 16%TIMOTHY PATTON DBA NORTH AVONDALE BOOSTER: $10k → 16%POPE ATHLETICS: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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…

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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.…

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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.

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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…

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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

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12
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Indianapolis Urban Youth Baseball & Softball Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, 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.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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…Johnson Charitable Gi…Children's Hospital M…Interact for HealthCarol Ann and Ralph V…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…
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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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 31 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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