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CAIN CINCY

CAIN CINCY (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,726,103 to it, the largest being Trust Estate of George B Riley ($318,850). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
38
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$1.2M
25/38 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Cain Cincy does

Mission

Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. Feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community dinner,and shelter for women & children.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The organization provides comprehensive and compassionate care along with food and other basic living essentials primarily to 45223 zip-code residents of the city of cincinnati neighborhoods of northside, mt. Airy, south cumminsville. Cains choice pantry provides emergency and supplemental food, hygiene, household necessities and emergency financial assistance. There were 15,755 visits to the pantry during the year: 99.5% earn below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. Cain pioneers efforts to provide and increase access to nutrient-dense, high-quality, and safe food for food insecure families. Cain offers on-site stabilization services including free tax filing and public benefit application assistance

    $2,028,135 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,028,135.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($627k) Expenses 100 ($544k) Net assets 100 ($853k)2018 Revenue 110 ($690k) Expenses 114 ($620k) Net assets 108 ($924k)2019 Revenue 93 ($584k) Expenses 125 ($682k) Net assets 136 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 187 ($1.2M) Expenses 180 ($977k) Net assets 159 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 154 ($966k) Expenses 172 ($935k) Net assets 163 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 182 ($1.1M) Expenses 215 ($1.2M) Net assets 159 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 287 ($1.8M) Expenses 346 ($1.9M) Net assets 150 ($1.3M)2024 Revenue 338 ($2.1M) Expenses 400 ($2.2M) Net assets 143 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 333 ($2.1M) Expenses 388 ($2.1M) Net assets 139 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (333)Expenses (388)Net assets (139)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.2M to $1.4M (+22%).

$862k
$929k
$1.2M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.2M
$1.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2020 9% · 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of CAIN CINCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,735 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$83k
’17
$70k
’18
−$98k
’19
$193k
’20
$31k
’21
−$27k
’22
−$79k
’23
−$61k
’24
−$23k
’25
1.1
months of
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

Charyl Mikles

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2023 and FY2024, and between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed171719181617141516
Joined·+4+4+5+1+3+6+3+5
No longer listed·42632924
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $194k → $221k.

10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 CAIN CINCY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

CAIN CINCY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

49% 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 CAIN CINCY.

18%
largest funder
43%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 37% · 2020 23% · 2021 26% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — growing more concentrated.

“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

50% of CAIN CINCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

79% of CAIN CINCY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

MN
IL
IN
OH
PA
RI
KY
DE
NC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $645k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CAIN CINCY has grown faster than half of the 1,211 religion nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Months of reserve1.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)16% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,211 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CAIN CINCY

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 3%Fundraising 1%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CAIN CINCY: 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 CAIN CINCY?
CAIN CINCY (Ohio) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,726,103 to it, the largest being Trust Estate of George B Riley ($318,850). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CAIN CINCY have?
IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,726,103 in grants to CAIN CINCY, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAIN CINCY?
Trust Estate of George B Riley is the largest funder on record, with $318,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAIN CINCY 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 38 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