· Public charity
United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation
The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.
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 $10k4 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati (UWGC) | $1,240,350 |
| Cincinnati Assoc for Blind and Visually Imp | $313,942 |
| Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired | $113,368 |
| Children's Home dba Best Point Education & Behavioral Health | $9,343 |
| Cancer Family Care | $9,343 |
| Clermont Senior Services | $9,343 |
| Redwood School and Rehabilitation Center | $8,721 |
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, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CACincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +31%
- CCClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired8× · 2017–2025 · $934k · revenue +54%
- CSClermont Senior Services Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ECEvery Child Succeedsgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +53%
- BCBUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAYone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -12%
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.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Child focus strengthens the quality of life for 20,000 individuals in central and southern Ohio by developing thriving kids, strong families and successful adults
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
A trauma-informed Healthcare Organization, CHNK Behavioral Health creates Holistic Partnerships for Health and Wellness that are inclusive, innovative and inspiring.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
Claiborne Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Provide essential services to our clients to assist them in reaching self-sufficiency and improving their quality of life.
To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds Every Child Succeeds ↗
- Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds Clermont Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CLINIC - GROUP ↗
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: United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Butler County United Way · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Synchrony 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 United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation 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.