Ohio · Nonprofit
CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY
CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,967 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $127k
What Character Council of Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky does
Mission
To provide events, programs and messaging to help numerous children and adults grow in character, build strong families, improve school culture, and enrich the spirit of communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To provide events, programs, and messaging to help numerous children and adults grow in character, build strong families, improve school culture, and enrich the spirit of communities
$152 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $152.
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 2020 to 2021, from $79k to $47k (−40%).
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.
95% of CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Mary Andres Russell
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $5k → $560.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY’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
CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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
CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY
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.
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY: 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 CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY?
- CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY (Ohio) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,967 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($23,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $25,967 in grants to CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY?
- JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $23,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHARACTER COUNCIL OF CINCINNATI & NORTHERN KENTUCKY 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 3 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