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Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc

Urban league of greater southwestern ohio, inc.

$2.2M
Granted FY2023
42
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$225k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Community Improvement$1.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MHuman Services$263kEmployment$217kHealth$210kFood & Nutrition$45kHousing & Shelter$22kEnvironment$22kOther$0
02FY2023 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 42 grants below total $1,814,374, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,173,811 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $359,437 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $360k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
HOITY TOITY LLC$75,000
JUST Q'IN BBQ$75,000
WATER LILY LEARNING CENTER EAST LLC$75,000
WEST END SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL GROUP INC: $94k → 10%WATER LILY LEARNING CENTER EAST LLC: $75k → 9%H&H DEMO LLC: $17k → 16%CORA'S CAKERY: $25k → 10%SOUTHERN OHIO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $45k → 9%H&H DEMO LLC: $15k → 16%SOUTHERN OHIO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC: $20k → 9%GREATER CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY AFRICAN AMERICAN CHAMBER: $225k → 16%LIGHTSHIP FOUNDATION: $150k → 16%JUST Q'IN BBQ: $75k → 16%THE VOICE OF YOUR CUSTOMER LLC: $20k → 16%HEALTH CARE RESOURCES PLUS INC: $20k → 16%THE VOICE OF YOUR CUSTOMER LLC: $15k → 16%LAW OF MA'AT CONSULTANTS: $15k → 16%HAUS HOLDING ORGANIZATION LLC: $15k → 16%WILSON ESTATE HOME HEALTH CARE LLC: $15k → 16%HAIRPORT BARBER PLUS NAIL SALON: $15k → 16%FILL MORE WASTE LESS: $15k → 16%A MOTHER'S LOVE 24 HR CHILDCARE LLC: $15k → 16%SWEET JAZZ TREATS LLC: $70k → 16%FLAVORS OF THE ISLE: $15k → 16%K&J SEAFOOD: $15k → 16%DDSJ PROPERTIES LLC: $15k → 16%THE KATALYST GROUP: $17k → 16%SWEET MAE'S COOKIE COMPANY LLC: $58k → 16%CHAMPION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17k → 16%HERITAGE HILL LLC: $15k → 16%PENINCILA LLC: $15k → 16%HERITAGE HILL LLC: $15k → 16%RABIAH'S HOUSE OF LEARNING FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 16%PATA ROJA TAQUERIA: $37k → 16%PATA ROJA TAQUERIA: $17k → 16%HOITY TOITY LLC: $75k → 16%6 N THE MORNIN' LLC: $20k → 16%WEST END SPORTS BAR AND GRILL LLC: $75k → 16%GREATER CINCINNATI MICROENTERPRISE INITIATIVE: $126k → 16%THOMAS REHABBING LLC: $20k → 16%JUST COOKIN' CATERING LLC: $17k → 16%KAIKER DEVELOPMENT LLC: $50k → 16%1ST CHOICE CAREER CENTER: $43k → 16%LEYLA HOUSE LEARNING CENTER INC: $22k → 16%WILLIAMS ENGINEERING LLC: $20k → 16%MORTAR CINCINNATI: $200k → 16%CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $200k → 16%PATA ROJA TAQUERIA LLC: $20k → 16%MAGNIFICENT MORSELS CATERING LLC: $20k → 16%HERITAGE HILL LLC: $60k → 16%D2 LANDSCAPING & OUTDOOR SERVICES INC: $17k → 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.

24%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$866k · 27 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
81

Total granted

$866k
$1.1M

Still filing today

0%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
Community ImprovementEmploymentOther
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

  • HH
    HERITAGE HILL LLC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $90k
  • PR
    PATA ROJA TAQUERIA
    3× · 2021–2023 · $74k
  • SO
    SOUTHERN OHIO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $65k

Funded once

  • PE
    PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL GROUP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $94k
  • 1C
    1ST CHOICE CAREER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $43k
  • LH
    LEYLA HOUSE LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
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
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

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.

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2
Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Inc

Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.

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3
Endeavor Louisville Inc

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.…

International
4
Ohio Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission

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…

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6
Columbus Area Chamber of Commerce

Various programs promoting business and economic well being of the community.

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7
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
8
World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

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…

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9
Allied Construction Industries Cincinnati

Aci's mission is to grow the cincinnati region's commercial construction industry.

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10
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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11
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
12
Clermont County Chamber of Commerce

To provide outstanding member service and business advocacy to make the clermont county area the best place to locate, operate, and grow business.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Co: $225,000 · OtherThe Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Co+140 more: $2,670,531 · Other+140 moreCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI USA …Hillman Accelerator: $150,000 · Community ImprovementHillman Acceler…Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise: $125,796 · Community ImprovementGreater Cincinn…Mortar Cincinnati: $200,000 · EmploymentSupply Chain OKI: $7,000 · Employment
Other$2,895,531Community Improvement$475,796Employment$207,000

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 budgetMortar Cincinnati: $200,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHillman Accelerator: $150,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Microenterprise: $125,796 over 1y, 19% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC: $7,660 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSupply Chain OKI: $7,000 over 1y, 7.8% 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 The Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky African American Chamber of Co ↗
  • Who funds Mortar Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Hillman Accelerator ↗
  • Who funds Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise ↗

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.

Alloy Development Co IncOH37.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 7 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%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 · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 146 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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