· Public charity
Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc
Urban league of greater southwestern ohio, inc.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $1,814,374 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,173,811 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $359,437 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER | $225,000 |
| MORTAR CINCINNATI | $200,000 |
| CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| LIGHTSHIP FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI MICROENTERPRISE INITIATIVE | $125,796 |
| WEST END SPORTS BAR AND GRILL LLC | $75,000 |
| WATER LILY LEARNING CENTER EAST LLC | $75,000 |
| JUST Q'IN BBQ | $75,000 |
| HOITY TOITY LLC | $75,000 |
| SWEET JAZZ TREATS LLC | $70,000 |
| HERITAGE HILL LLC | $60,400 |
| SWEET MAE'S COOKIE COMPANY LLC | $58,000 |
| KAIKER DEVELOPMENT LLC | $50,000 |
| SOUTHERN OHIO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC | $45,000 |
| PATA ROJA TAQUERIA | $36,570 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of your 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.
27 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 23 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- HHHERITAGE HILL LLC3× · 2021–2023 · $90k
- PRPATA ROJA TAQUERIA3× · 2021–2023 · $74k
- SOSOUTHERN OHIO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $65k
Funded once
- PEPACIFIC EDUCATIONAL GROUP INCone grant, 2022 · $94k
- 1C1ST CHOICE CAREER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $43k
- LHLEYLA HOUSE LEARNING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $22k
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.
Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.
Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.
Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…
As the state's leading business advocate and resource, the ohio chamber of commerce aggressively champions free enterprise, economic competitiveness and growth for the benefit of all ohioans.
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…
Various programs promoting business and economic well being of the community.
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.
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
Aci's mission is to grow the cincinnati region's commercial construction industry.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To provide outstanding member service and business advocacy to make the clermont county area the best place to locate, operate, and grow business.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillman Accelerator. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 146 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.
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: Alloy Development Co Inc · Main Street Ventures · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · National Urban League Inc · Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber Foundation · Cincinnati Preschool Promise LLC · Children's Hospital Medical Center · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Local Initiatives Support Corporation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc 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.