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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $213k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$62,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHERN KENTUCKY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $13k → 11%NORTHERN KENTUCKY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%NORTHERN KENTUCKY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%NORTHERN KENTUCKY REGIONAL ALLIANCE: $10k → 11%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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 5 repeat orgs$996k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

$1.1M
$563k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+23%

Still filing today

60%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEmploymentHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NK
    NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $214k · revenue +29%
  • CD
    CATALYTIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDING CORP OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $71k · revenue +506%
  • ON
    ONE NKY ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $43k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CC
    CTI - CLINICAL TRIAL SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $200k
  • BG
    BAD GIRL VENTURES INC DBA AVIATRA ACCELERATORS
    one grant, 2019 · $171k · revenue -33% · 39% of their budget
  • SI
    SQUARE1 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $45k · revenue +47% · 35% of their budget
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
Endeavor Louisville Inc

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.…

International
2
Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc

The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.

Community Improvement
3
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.

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4
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
5
Southeast Kentucky Economic Development Corporation Inc

To facilitate the economic growth and development of the southern kentucky region.

Community Improvement
6
Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Inc

Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.

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7
Central Region Innovation and Commercialization Center Inc

Economic development, support entrepreneurial ecosystem building and business development within the central region of kentucky.

Community Improvement
8
One East Kentucky Corporation One East 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…

Community Improvement
9
Kentucky Industrial Development Council

Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.

Community Improvement
10
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

—
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Northeast Indiana Innovation Center Inc

We are a comprehensive entrepreneurial center whose mission is putting business growth, innovation and entrepreneurship to work for northeast indiana

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Nky Alliance Inc; 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.
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 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REDI Cincinnati LLC: $552,500 · OtherREDI Cincinnati LLCNORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INCORPORATED: $250,000 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INCORPORATEDNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $214,085 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCECTI - CLINICAL TRIAL SERVICES INC: $200,000 · OtherCTI - CLINICAL TRIAL SERVICES INCNORTHERN KENTUCKY PORT AUTHORITY: $62,500 · Other+2 more: $30,771 · OtherBAD GIRL VENTURES INC DBA AVIATRA ACCELERATORS: $170,974 · EducationBAD GIRL VENTUR…University of Kentucky Research Foundation: $40,000 · EducationUniversity of K…NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,636 · EducationNORTHERN KENTUC…KENTUCKY ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION NETWORK INC: $20,000 · EducationKENTUCKY ENTREP…Adopt A Class Foundation Inc: $20,000 · EducationAdopt A Class F…UPTECH INC: $184,840 · Community ImprovementUPTECH INCCATALYTIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDING CORP OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $71,074 · Community ImprovementCATALYTIC DEVE…+2 more: $10,625 · Community ImprovementBLUE NORTH KY INC: $100,000 · Public BenefitSQUARE1 INC: $45,000 · EmploymentONE NKY ALLIANCE INC: $43,333 · Human ServicesUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,309,856Education$281,610Community Improvement$266,539Public Benefit$100,000Employment$45,000Human Services$43,333Philanthropy$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 R C Durr Foundati…The Greater Cincinnat…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Tri-County Economic Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tri-County Economic Development Corporation. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 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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