· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of TRI-COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $213k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN KY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT | $250,000 |
| BLUE NORTH KY | $100,000 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY PORT AUTHORITY | $62,500 |
| REDI CINCINNATI | $50,000 |
| ADOPT-A-CLASS | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY REGIONAL ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k 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
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE7× · 2017–2023 · $214k · revenue +29%
- CDCATALYTIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDING CORP OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY3× · 2017–2019 · $71k · revenue +506%
- ONONE NKY ALLIANCE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- CCCTI - CLINICAL TRIAL SERVICES INCone grant, 2017 · $200k
- BGBAD GIRL VENTURES INC DBA AVIATRA ACCELERATORSone grant, 2019 · $171k · revenue -33% · 39% of their budget
- SISQUARE1 INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +47% · 35% of their budget
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.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.
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.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
To facilitate the economic growth and development of the southern kentucky region.
Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.
Economic development, support entrepreneurial ecosystem building and business development within the central region of kentucky.
The exclusive mission of ONE EAST KENTUCKY is to Recruit Industry and Investment JOBSto Eastern Kentucky through the implementation of a 5-Year Economic Development Strategy. ONE EAST KENTUCKY is a 9-County Regional Organization comprised…
Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
We are a comprehensive entrepreneurial center whose mission is putting business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship to work for northeast indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Nky Alliance Inc and the most unlike its peers is SQUARE1 Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 20 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 NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds UPTECH INC ↗
- Who funds BAD GIRL VENTURES INC DBA AVIATRA ACCELERATORS ↗
- Who funds BLUE NORTH KY INC ↗
- Who funds CATALYTIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDING CORP OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds SQUARE1 INC ↗
- Who funds ONE NKY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Adopt A Class Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL COUNTY ECONOMIC PROGRESS AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds Cintrifuse ↗
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 R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tri-County Economic Development Corporation 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.
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.