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Tri-County Economic Development Corporation

Build a world-class economy in northern kentucky through the expansion of existing businesses and the creation and attraction of high quality, primary industry employers.

$498k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$62,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$14M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Tri-County Economic Development Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$493k67%
FY20242$213k0%
FY20233$155k0%
FY20223$54k33%
FY20213$50k67%
FY20203$94k33%
FY20197$515k57%
FY20186$158k33%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.6MEmployment$436kEducation$71k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
REDI Cincinnati LLC$552,5007n/a
Northern Kentucky Area Development District Incorporated$250,0001n/a
Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce$214,08573%
Cti - Clinical Trial Services Inc$200,0001n/a
Uptech Inc$184,840323%
Bad Girl Ventures Inc Dba Aviatra Accelerators$170,974139%
Blue North Ky Inc$100,00015%
Catalytic Development Funding Corp of Northern Kentucky$71,07432%
Northern Kentucky Port Authority$62,5001n/a
Square1 Inc$45,000135%
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All grantees of Tri-County Economic Development Corporation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
REDI Cincinnati LLC$552,5007n/a
Northern Kentucky Area Development District Incorporated$250,0001n/a
Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce$214,08573%
Cti - Clinical Trial Services Inc$200,0001n/a
Uptech Inc$184,840323%
Bad Girl Ventures Inc Dba Aviatra Accelerators$170,974139%
Blue North Ky Inc$100,00015%
Catalytic Development Funding Corp of Northern Kentucky$71,07432%
Northern Kentucky Port Authority$62,5001n/a
Square1 Inc$45,000135%
One Nky Alliance Inc$43,33341%
University of Kentucky Research Foundation$40,00010%
Northern Kentucky University Foundation Inc$30,63610%
Kentucky Entrepreneurship Education Network Inc$20,00013%
Adopt A Class Foundation Inc$20,00012%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$15,00010%
Brighton Center Inc$6,50010%
Campbell County Economic Progress Authority Inc$5,62517%
Cintrifuse$5,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Tri-County Economic Development Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce: $214,085 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetUptech Inc: $184,840 over 3y, 23% of budgetBad Girl Ventures Inc Dba Aviatra Accelerators: $170,974 over 1y, 39% of budgetBlue North Ky Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCatalytic Development Funding Corp of Northern Kentucky: $71,074 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSquare1 Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetOne Nky Alliance Inc: $43,333 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Kentucky University Foundation Inc: $30,636 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKentucky Entrepreneurship Education Network Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAdopt A Class Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrighton Center Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCampbell County Economic Progress Authority Inc: $5,625 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCintrifuse: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500KY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Tri-County Economic Development Corporation

How much does Tri-County Economic Development Corporation give?
Tri-County Economic Development Corporation reported 6 grants totaling $497,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Tri-County Economic Development Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (75%), Employment (21%), Education (3%).
Who are Tri-County Economic Development Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: REDI Cincinnati LLC ($553k), Northern Kentucky Area Development District Incorporated ($250k), Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce ($214k).
Does Tri-County Economic Development Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tri-County Economic Development Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Tri-County Economic Development Corporation based?
Tri-County Economic Development Corporation is based in KY.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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