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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.2M
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.

Philanthropy$14MHealth$4.4MHuman Services$119kFood & Nutrition$10kInternational$6k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $37k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $113k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
$9,343
Median grant
2
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Clermont Senior Services$9,343
Children's Home dba Best Point Education & Behavioral Health$9,343
Cancer Family Care$9,343
Redwood School and Rehabilitation Center$8,721
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Clermont Senior Services: $12k → 9%Clermont Senior Services: $11k → 9%Cincinnati Children's Home: $10k → 16%Clermont Senior Services: $10k → 9%Clermont Senior Services: $10k → 9%Children's Home dba Best Point Education & Behavioral Health: $9k → 16%Clermont Senior Services: $10k → 9%Best Point: $9k → 16%Clermont Senior Services: $9k → 9%Children's Home of Cincinnati: $8k → 16%Clermont Senior Services: $8k → 9%Clermont Senior Services: $8k → 9%The Children's Home of Cincinnati: $5k → 16%Clovernook Ctr Blind Visually Impaired: $150k → 16%Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $122k → 16%Clovernook Center: $117k → 16%Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $113k → 16%Clovernook Cntr for the Blind: $113k → 16%Clovernook Cntr for the Blind: $113k → 16%Clovernook Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $104k → 16%Clovernook Cntr for the Blind: $103k → 16%Every Child Succeeds: $1.0M → 16%Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $330k → 16%Cinti Assoc Blind Visually Impaired: $320k → 16%Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired: $320k → 16%Cincinnati Assoc for Blind and Visually Imp: $314k → 16%Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $288k → 16%Cinci Assoc Blind and Visually Impaired: $276k → 16%Cinci Assoc Blind & Visually Impaired: $243k → 16%Cinci Assoc Blind and Visually Impaired: $196k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 8 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

$17M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CA
    Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
    8× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +31%
  • CC
    Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired
    8× · 2017–2025 · $934k · revenue +54%
  • CS
    Clermont Senior Services Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • EC
    Every Child Succeedsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +33%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +53%
  • BC
    BUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -12%
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
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
2
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
3
Cumberland Medical Center

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.

Health
4
Child Focus

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

Human Services
5
Cleveland Christian Home Inc

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.

Religion
6
Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc

A trauma-informed Healthcare Organization, CHNK Behavioral Health creates Holistic Partnerships for Health and Wellness that are inclusive, innovative and inspiring.

Human Services
7
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
8
Claiborne Medical Center

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.

Health
9
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

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,…

Human Services
10
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

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.

Human Services
11
Clermont Co Community Services

Provide essential services to our clients to assist them in reaching self-sufficiency and improving their quality of life.

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12
OhioGuidestone

To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $13,989,650 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater CincinnatiCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $2,287,142 · Human ServicesCincinnati Association for…Every Child Succeeds: $1,002,300 · Human ServicesEvery Child SucceedsClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired: $934,468 · Human ServicesClovernook Center For the …+2 more: $118,624 · Human ServicesRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $74,090 · HealthCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $55,050 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $36,032 · HealthCancer Family Care Inc: $25,793 · HealthBUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY: $15,435 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS SW OH & NKY: $10,000 · OtherST JOSEPH ORPHANAGE: $6,100 · OtherCENTRAL CLINIC - GROUP: $5,600 · Other
Philanthropy$13,989,650Human Services$4,342,534Health$190,965Other$37,135

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $13,989,650 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $2,287,142 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetEvery Child Succeeds: $1,002,300 over 1y, 13% of budgetClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired: $934,468 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetClermont Senior Services Inc: $77,943 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $74,090 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $55,050 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $40,681 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $36,032 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $25,793 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBUTLER COUNTY UNITED WAY: $15,435 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL CLINIC - GROUP: $5,600 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Greater Cincinnat…Sutphin Family Founda…Andrew Jergens Founda…Duke Energy FoundationButler County United …Jack J Smith Jr Chari…Millstone FundThe Thomas J Emery Me…Charles H Dater Found…Johnson Charitable Gi…Synchrony Foundation
United Way of Greater CincinnatiOH24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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 14 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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