· Private foundation
Trust Estate of George B Riley
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $661k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc | $150,000 |
| Serenity Consultants Inc | $140,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati | $90,000 |
| Bloc Ministries Inc | $80,000 |
| Found House | $80,000 |
| First Step Home Inc | $75,000 |
| Our Daily Bread | $60,000 |
| ProKids | $60,000 |
| North Fairmount Community Center | $50,000 |
| City Gospel Mission | $50,000 |
| Joseph House Inc | $50,000 |
| Cincinnati Urban Promise | $50,000 |
| Lighthouse Youth Services Inc | $50,000 |
| St Monica's Recreation Center | $50,000 |
| Learning Grove Inc | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- MNMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
- BMBLOC MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $670k · revenue +84%
- TFTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC9× · 2017–2025 · $613k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- VWVINEYARD WESTSIDE CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $50k
- GGGOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTHone grant, 2024 · $50k
- PNPROJECT NEHEMIAH INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · 42% 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.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Providing housing and transitional services for the marginalized population coming from homelessness, following rehab, incarceration, or resulting from set-back related to physical or mental health conditions.
Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
Rebuilding hope through housing opportunities for families and individuals with support services during transitions.
Crossroads urban center provides food, clothing, and housing assistance services to low-income individuals and minorities.
Supporting Homeless and Addicted Individuals with Food, Clothing and Spiritual Support.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and the most unlike its peers is Ennis Tait Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 71 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 Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds SERENITY CONSULTANTS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Joseph House Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds CAIN CINCY ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Glad House Inc ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds Elementz ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds Open Door Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Prospect House Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CITYLINK CENTER ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Spaulding Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc
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 Trust Estate of George B Riley 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.
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