· Community foundation
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k258 grants · $1.8M
- $10k–50k777 grants · $16M
- $50k–250k273 grants · $28M
- $250k+100 grants · $139M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURE CONSERVANCY INC NATIONAL | $46,117,979 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,968,851 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $4,201,584 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $4,128,668 |
| BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION | $4,067,200 |
| WORLD VISION | $3,237,939 |
| ROYALMONT ACADEMY | $3,121,500 |
| ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC | $3,000,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $2,431,230 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $2,122,660 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $2,098,979 |
| CARE USA | $1,628,295 |
| SYCAMORE COMMUNITY PUBLIC CHARITIES | $1,552,626 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $1,503,345 |
| NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC | $1,439,770 |
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 (FY17–24, $39.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
1552 repeat relationships — 956 still active in FY2024, 596 since wound down; 117 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $51M · revenue +94%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $23M · revenue +30%
- BEBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +356%
Funded once
- GAGAVI ALLIANCEone grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue -84%
- PPOLICYLINKone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -42%
- AAARCHBISHOP ALTER HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $450k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for the Rights of Abused Children and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. 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.
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.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
1557 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. 1557 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO END PLASTIC WASTE INC ↗
- Who funds BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds GAVI ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROYALMONT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERLINK INC ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Andrew Jergens Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky
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 Greater Cincinnati Foundation 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.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.