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Trust Estate of George B Riley at a glance

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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$4.3MHousing & Shelter$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.5MHealth$1.3MReligion$1.3MRecreation & Sports$845kEducation$635kEmployment$592kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $661k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Learning Grove Inc$50,000
Joseph House Inc$50,000
City Gospel Mission$50,000
Cincinnati Urban Promise$50,000
North Fairmount Community Center$50,000
Lighthouse Youth Services Inc$50,000
St Monica's Recreation Center$50,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $23k → 16%CWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $42k → 16%CWFF Child Development Center Inc: $40k → 16%CWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $30k → 16%CWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $25k → 16%CWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 16%CWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $25k → 16%CWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $20k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $50k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $45k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $45k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $40k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $40k → 16%New Life Furniture Inc: $40k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $30k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $30k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE: $20k → 16%NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $55k → 16%NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 16%North Fairmount Community Center: $50k → 16%NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $40k → 16%NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME INC: $80k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME INC: $75k → 16%First Step Home Inc: $75k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME INC: $73k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $70k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME INC: $70k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $65k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $65k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $60k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME INC: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services Inc: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $40k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS Inc: $35k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $25k → 16%Cincinnati Works Inc: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $25k → 16%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 52 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
16

Total granted

$14M
$456k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

69%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
Human ServicesHealthReligionFood & NutritionEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • MN
    Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +6%
  • BM
    BLOC MINISTRIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $670k · revenue +84%
  • TF
    THE FIRST STEP HOME INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $613k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • GG
    GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • VW
    VINEYARD WESTSIDE CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
2
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
3
Centers for Living Inc

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.

Human Services
4
Lifetime Housing Group Inc

Plan, coordinate and provide affordable housing to low-income individuals and families in Southeastern Indiana.

Food & Nutrition
5
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
6
Community Networks Inc

Providing services to the homeless, low income individuals, and hiv/aids infected and affected individuals

Housing & Shelter
7
Cleveland Mediation Center

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services
9
Community Rebuilders

Rebuilding hope through housing opportunities for families and individuals with support services during transitions.

Housing & Shelter
10
Crossroads Urban Center

Crossroads urban center provides food, clothing, and housing assistance services to low-income individuals and minorities.

Human Services
11
Columbus Relief Inc

Supporting Homeless and Addicted Individuals with Food, Clothing and Spiritual Support.

Human Services
12
Independent Living Options Inc

Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 71 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MONICA'S RECREATION CENTER: $500,000 · OtherST MONICA'S RECREATION CENTERCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $495,000 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATESOUR DAILY BREAD: $450,000 · OtherOUR DAILY BREADLORD'S GYM: $345,000 · OtherWORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS: $340,000 · OtherLEARNING GROVE INC: $300,000 · OtherEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $300,000 · OtherGlad House Inc: $283,750 · OtherEPIC HOUSE: $271,000 · OtherCINCINNATI HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $270,000 · OtherQUEEN CITY COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $265,000 · OtherINTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK: $220,000 · OtherDress for Success Cincinnati: $227,000 · Other+36 more: $2,264,250 · Other+36 moreMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $1,410,000 · HealthMercy Neighborhood Mi…SERENITY CONSULTANTS INC: $470,000 · HealthSERENITY CONSULTANTS …Joseph House Inc: $435,000 · HealthJoseph House IncCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $250,000 · HealthCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY H…Prospect House Inc: $115,000 · HealthTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $613,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST STEP HO…LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $410,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH …NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $340,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE FURNITUR…NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $255,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FAIRMOUNT C…CINCINNATI WORKS: $240,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKSCWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $226,550 · Human ServicesCWFF CHILD DEVELO…MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $113,000 · Human Services+1 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesBLOC MINISTRIES INC: $670,000 · ReligionBLOC MINIST…LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $338,750 · ReligionLITTLE BROT…CAIN CINCY: $318,850 · ReligionCAIN CINCY+1 more: $45,000 · ReligionHabitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati: $540,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterProKids: $445,000 · Civil RightsCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC: $190,000 · Community ImprovementCITYLINK CENTER: $110,000 · Community Improvement
Other$6,531,000Health$2,680,000Human Services$2,209,550Religion$1,372,600Housing & Shelter$555,000Civil Rights$445,000Community Improvement$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $1,410,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC: $670,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $613,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati: $540,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $495,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSERENITY CONSULTANTS INC: $470,000 over 9y, 23% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $450,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetProKids: $445,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetJoseph House Inc: $435,000 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $410,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS: $340,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $340,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $338,750 over 9y, 16% of budgetCAIN CINCY: $318,850 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC: $300,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $300,000 over 9y, 21% of budgetGlad House Inc: $283,750 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetQUEEN CITY COMMUNITY KITCHEN: $265,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetNORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $255,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $250,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $240,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati: $227,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetCWFF CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $226,550 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetElementz: $205,000 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $203,750 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC: $190,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $125,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetOpen Door Ministry Inc: $120,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetProspect House Inc: $115,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetMADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $113,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetCITYLINK CENTER: $110,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPOWER INSPIRES PROGRESS INC: $100,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetFound Village: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCHRIST'S COMMUNITY IN COLLEGE HILL: $50,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetHEALTHY BEGINNINGS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetPROJECT NEHEMIAH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetENNIS TAIT MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetTristate Veterans Community Alliance: $45,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetUPSPRING: $35,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $12,000 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 Greater Cincinnat…United Way of Greater…John a Schroth Family…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Johnson Charitable Gi…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Marge & Charles J Sch…Millstone FundAndrew Jergens Founda…Spaulding FoundationSutphin Family Founda…Charles H Dater Found…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH71.1× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Trust Estate of George B Riley funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trust Estate of George B Riley. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Trust Estate of George B Riley through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 71 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-PF 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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