Ohio · Nonprofit
Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc
Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,863,207 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($401,513). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $2.9M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc does
Mission
Provide a rigorous four-year college-preparatory summer learning program for high-need and high-potential middle school students and inspire and train college students as the next generation of teachers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Academic enrichment and support was provided to over 200 under-served middle school students from the greater cincinnati area. Students receive 6 weeks of summer classes designed to prepare them for the next grade. They are taught by high school and college students training to become teachers. School year program provides ongoing support to students enrolled in the summer program.
$870,663 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $870,663.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $864k (−29%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 7% · 2021 11% · 2022 8% · 2023 31% · 2024 42% · 2025 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Rhonda Starghill
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $99k → $432k.
5 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 funders by total. 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
Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
38% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 22% · 2019 19% · 2020 27% · 2021 23% · 2022 29% · 2023 23% — 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
60% of Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
60% of Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $365k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc?
- Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,863,207 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($401,513). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $2,863,207 in grants to Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $401,513 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 48 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing