Ohio · Nonprofit
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,643,152 to it, the largest being Charles H Dater Foundation Inc ($450,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $440k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $547k
What Assistance League of Greater Cincinnati does
Mission
Assistance League of Greater Cincinnati (the chapter) is a nonprofit public benefit corporation which engages in philanthropic service projects in the greater cincinnati area.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
Operation School Bell, our signature program, began in 1999 and has experienced continuous growth. We currently partner with 44 elementary schools in the Greater Cincinnati area to which we provide new clothing and hygiene supplies for students in grades K to 6. The students are deemed eligible for assistance by their school principal and/or resource coordinator. Each partner school files clothing orders with us and then receives pants, short and long sleeve shirts, underwear, socks, fleece jackets, and belts in time for distribution at the beginning of the school year. . Also, as requested, the schools receive toothpaste and toothbrushes, deodorant, soap, and packages of feminine pads. The clothing and hygiene items are picked up by school representatives at our center and then distributed by school resource coordinators to their students. During our 2025-2026 fiscal year, the schools reported that 7,502 students received clothing items and 5,709 students received hygiene products as a result of this program. We have served over 114,000 elementary students since the programs inception.
$235,722 spent61% of program spendingNew Beginnings provides 2 levels of service: (1) a Welcome Kit for new arrivals at shelters/crisis centers and (2) household kits for those families moving on to a new home. Upon arrival at a shelter/crisis center, women seeking protection receive a Welcome Kit containing a new tee shirt, socks, underwear, and hygiene items packaged in a reusable drawstring bag by our members. Various sizes of childrens underwear and socks are also provided. When their stay at the shelters/crisis centers ends, women and their children wishing to start a new life away from the abuser are assisted by social workers in finding a new home. At that time, we provide newly purchased household and hygiene items. The 47-item household collection includes cleaning products, bedding, bath items, hygiene items, and kitchen items for the family. Age-appropriate kits of bedding, bath, eating utensils, and hygiene items are provided for their babies, toddlers, and older children. Throughout the year, the Welcome Kits and household kits are picked up at our center by seven shelters in Hamilton, Warren, Clermont, and Butler counties in Ohio, and Kenton County, Kentucky. During fiscal year 2025-2026, Assistance…
$62,340 spent16% of program spendingALCares4Kids was renamed in 2022 from the original program of Kinship Foster Care to allow us to expand help to homeless children. The program started in 2018 as a partnership with Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Centers CHECK Foster Care Center. The CHECK program provides screening, physical evaluations and clinical care for children living in foster and kinship care in Hamilton County. Since then, Jacks Closet (Anderson Township), Monkey Beans (Sardinia, Ohio), The Vinedresser (Florence, Kentucky), and Tabithas Closet (Morrow, Ohio) have been added as partners. The closets provide gently used childrens clothing to foster and kinship care families. Tabithas Closet also provides clothing for homeless children. Assistance League members assemble and provide packages of new undergarments, socks, diapers, baby wipes and hygiene items monthly for each partner, depending on their needs. During our fiscal year 2025-2026, we provided 11,184 new items for 6,446 children . Since its inception, 29,739 children have benefited from these distributions.
$75,864 spent20% of program spendingAssault Survivor Kits, started in 1996, this program provides new clothing and hygiene supplies for survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Assistance League members assemble new sweatpants, sweatshirts,tee shirts, socks, underwear, underwear,underwear, and hygiene supplies into a reusable drawstring bag.The kits are provided to three organizations whose Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners assist victims: SANE of Butler County (now named SBC Forensics). The ION Center for Violence Prevention, and the TriHealth Center for Abuse and Rape Emergency (CARES program). These organizations distribute to 31 hospitals in the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area where survivors of sexual assault are treated. During our FY 2025-2026 fiscal year, Assistance League members packaged and provided 2,236 new items for 228 individuals, raising our to-date total to 8,039 for those who benefited.
$9,556 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $383,482.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $742k to $548k (−26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $81k → $270k.
4 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 62%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 34% · 2019 34% · 2020 26% · 2021 24% · 2022 25% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
63% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI?
- ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,643,152 to it, the largest being Charles H Dater Foundation Inc ($450,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,643,152 in grants to ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI?
- Charles H Dater Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 27 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing