· Community foundation
The Northern Cincinnai Foundation
Transforming generosity into impact by encouraging, supporting, and facilitating philanthropy to create more vibrant communities in northern cincinnati.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $2,039,985 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,377,138 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $337,153 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $537k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $312k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUBMARINE CINCINNATI MEMORIAL ASSOC | $1,108,103 |
| ST SUSANNA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $121,967 |
| BLOC MINISTRIES | $65,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $64,455 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CHESTER | $60,189 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $47,000 |
| CROSSROADS COMMUNITY CHURCH | $44,000 |
| WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP | $33,410 |
| REACH OUT LAKOTA | $30,400 |
| FLORIDA STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| LAKOTA CENTRAL OFFICE | $29,077 |
| COMPANIONS ON A JOURNEY | $27,200 |
| ETHAN'S HOME | $20,000 |
| BRAVE LIKE ME FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HORIZON COMMUNITY CHRUCH | $20,000 |
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, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
79 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 20 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, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- KAKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE6× · 2017–2022 · $807k · revenue +360%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER7× · 2017–2023 · $468k · revenue +53%
- LALiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc4× · 2018–2022 · $235k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FTFREE THROWS FOR KIDSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $199k · revenue +113%
BEREA COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $98k · revenue +16%- MDMINNESOTA DELTA TAU DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Foundation of Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting. 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
151 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. 151 of the 194 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
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WEST CHESTERLIBERT ↗
- Who funds KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Caring Like Angels and Heroes ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FREE THROWS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF BUTLER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Axis Teen Centers ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT LAKOTA INC ↗
- Who funds The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL STORES ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital ↗
- Who funds Delta Tau Delta Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ADOPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT MIAMI VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MELODIC CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #4361 ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Hamilton Community Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati
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 Northern Cincinnai 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Boston 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.