· Public charity
United Way of Greater Cincinnati
United Way leads and mobilizes the caring power of individuals and organizations to help people measurably improve their lives.
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.
The 224 grants below total $33,134,231 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $35,135,294 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,001,063 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k79 grants · $2.2M
- $50k–250k103 grants · $11M
- $250k+35 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Learning Grove | $1,550,000 |
| Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio (ULGSO) | $1,398,472 |
| Brighton Center Inc | $1,283,595 |
| Every Child Succeeds | $1,100,000 |
| Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services | $1,050,000 |
| Santa Maria Community Services | $987,008 |
| Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati | $850,000 |
| LISC | $750,000 |
| 4C for Children | $700,000 |
| Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation | $650,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati | $600,000 |
| Legal Aid of the Bluegrass | $600,000 |
| Catholic Charities SouthWestern Ohio | $550,000 |
| Best Point Education & Behavioral Health | $550,000 |
| Child Focus Inc | $550,000 |
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, $88.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 61% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
355 repeat relationships — 171 still active in FY2025, 184 since wound down; 49 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches6× · 2017–2022 · $20M · revenue +46%
- ECEvery Child Succeeds9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +22% · 29% of their budget
- BCBrighton Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- VNVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKYone grant, 2019 · $431k
- BCBoone County Fiscal Courtone grant, 2019 · $268k
- KAKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCEone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -2%
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.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
The cincnnati health network (chn) is a grantee for the health care for the homeless program in the greater cincinnati area and operates as a federally qualified health center. the chn is also the ryan white part c grantee and provides…
To show god's love to those in need by providing an integrated path to holistic life change.
YWCA Dayton is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Letters 2 Literacy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
376 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. 376 of the 567 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Every Child Succeeds ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CLINIC - GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Child Focus ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICE OF THE OHIO HUMANE SOCIETY DBA FAMILIESFORWARD ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds TALBERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Tristate ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio ↗
- Who funds Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CLERMONT CO COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Interact for Health · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Millstone Fund · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Spaulding Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · 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 United Way of Greater Cincinnati 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.