Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,374,875 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($1,759,020). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency does
Mission
Through advocacy, partnerships, and high-quality programs, our dedicated team is breaking down barriers to equity and opportunity, while building self-sufficiency across generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Child care programs: head start/ early head start for 1,877 students provide comprehensive family support to promote the education and well-being of low income pregnant women, infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. These services include school readiness, physical and mental health, and nutrition support, as well as fatherhood, parent engagement, and community resources that assist families in attaining self-sufficiency. The head start and early head start programs have helped parents transition over 1877 children to kindergarten success each year, provided families with much-needed resources for fresh food, and facilitated children's continued engagement with school readiness curriculum activities despite period closures. Our program provided families with the resources they needed to support their children's education.
$26,519,893 spent$75,789 earned by the program67% of program spendingHuman services program: community services is a comprehensive program that served 7,131 household with linkage to employment, education, transitional housing, emergency assistance, youth development, case management, business entrepreneurship, loan services and tax return preparation services. A total of 19,393 individuals benefitted from these community services.
$11,185,309 spent28% of program spendingThe home energy assistance program: provided utility bill assistance (including pipp budget payment assistance) to 8,377 individuals and 1,844 households during the year 2023.
$1,920,148 spent5% of program spendingSocial development and enrichment
$189,249 spent$359,311 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,814,599.
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 2019 to 2020, from $17M to $20M (+18%).
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 97% · 2018 97% · 2019 97% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 98% · 2023 94% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Damon Frost
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $67k → $1.7M.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY’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
CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 61% · 2019 50% · 2020 43% · 2021 39% · 2022 46% · 2023 71% — 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
43% of CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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 CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k 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
CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,288 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY
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In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cincinnati-Hamilton County Community Action Agency Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,374,875 to it, the largest being OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION ($1,759,020). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,374,875 in grants to CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY?
- OHIO CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,759,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI-HAMILTON COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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