Ohio · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI
CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,781,640 to it, the largest being UC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ($1,800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $52k
What Center for Closing the Health Gap in Greater Cincinnati does
Mission
Eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities in greater cincinnati through advocacy, education, and community outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
City of cincinnati grassroots mobilization model to eliminate health disparities - closing the health gap received funding from the city of cincinnati for our grassroots mobilization model to eliminate health disparities, which empowers communities to improve nutrition and increase physical activity for better overall health outcomes. The model promotes community outreach, awareness, and education to combat obesity through healthy lifestyles, advocacy, and policy changes. The city's funding partially supports closing the health gap's staff, our annual health expo, do right campaign, black women's health movement, and the do right healthy lifestyles initiative. The outcomes for this grant incorporate all programs.
$878,093 spentof which $72,470 as grants90% of program spendingCommunity outreach - closing the health gap supplements community outreach from general operating funds, grants, and donations to increase awareness of health disparities faced by african americans, latinx, and appalachians. Community outreach incorporates the do right campaign, an initiative to improve physical activity and nutrition in the greater cincinnati region. Other programs include the do right kids, do right healthy lifestyles initiative emphasizing diabetes, mental health, nutrition and healthy cooking, the black women's health movement, and our multimedia awareness campaign. Covid-19 continued to impact closing the health gap's service delivery. We used both in person and an online platforms for our programs. This included a wide range of digital media awareness campaigns and virtual community health events. Some of these methods were virtual town halls and our covid-19 resource website. We provided relevant health education information related to covid 19 testing, precautions, and vaccines through our closingthehealthgap.org and covid19communityresources.com websites. This fiscal year we distributed 1,271 covid-19 test kits; registered 401 people for covid-19…
The health collaborative, vaccination outreach & education - this grant was used to develop an awareness building campaign designed to educate, empower, and activate underserved communities across greater cincinnati related to the covid-19 pandemic. Building on chg's we must save us campaign launched in 2020, messaging topics, and calls to action focused on vaccines, fact based medical information and other details related to recovery for resident, business leaders, and other stakeholders. Information was disseminated through multimedia including radio, television, print media, virtual town hall meetings, website, newsletters, and social media. Community outreach included quantitative and qualitative research, support groups, and group informational sessions.
$86,600 spentof which $5,500 as grants9% of program spendingDo right campaign - the do right campaign empowers communities to improve nutrition, increase physical activity, encourages healthy lifestyles to reduce obesity and obesity-related diseases and removes barriers that limit access to healthy eating and physical activity. The goals are to increase awareness of health disparities and to co-create shared culture of health with residents. The annual campaign reached 249,444 this fiscal year. A component of the do right campaign expansion is the life-style modification which is targeted towards neighborhood residents and delivered through health education. More specifically, focusing on healthy eating, physical activity & civic engagement to help residents sustain healthy lifestyles. We also collect community needs assessments in targeted populations to identify the barriers for healthy lifestyles. This fiscal year we conducted 170 needs assessments regarding covid-19's impact. We also conducted trainings for cincinnati metropolitan housing authority (cmha) senior residents. Over 522 people attended 46 cmha activities. 18th annual health expo - the 18th annual health expo was held on april 30, 2022, at cincinnati's washington park. Over…
$7,288 spent$8,090 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $971,981.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.7M to $1.2M (−56%).
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: 2017 33% · 2018 61% · 2019 57% · 2020 46% · 2021 58% · 2022 42% · 2023 77% · 2024 80% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Board chair
Dianne Ebbs
Bod chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $825k → $565k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN 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
CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 24% · 2018 24% · 2019 47% · 2020 37% · 2021 46% · 2022 67% · 2023 71% — 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 CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
100% of CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN 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. $127k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN 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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI?
- CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,781,640 to it, the largest being UC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ($1,800,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,781,640 in grants to CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN GREATER CINCINNATI?
- UC HEALTHCARE SYSTEM is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR CLOSING THE HEALTH GAP IN 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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