Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,001,562 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($1,204,852). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 126
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $77M
What Cincinnati Nature Center does
Mission
Inspiring conservation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Just minutes away from the downtown urban core, Cincinnati Nature Center offers visitors spectacular experiences in nature among more than 1,800 acres of forests, fields, streams and ponds. With twenty miles of award-winning trails on two picturesque properties, the nature center provides something for people of all ages during all seasons. From enchanting spring wildflowers to the dazzling colors of autumn, the ever-changing beauty of nature attracts nearly 300,000 guests each year. Cincinnati Nature Center provides the community with a valuable education resource for innovative, nature-based learning opportunities in a variety of formats. A nature preschool, school field trips, family and adult seasonal programs, summer camps, teacher retreats, in-school programs and volunteer classes all help connect people to nature. The nature center's magnificent settings and venue rentals for weddings, family gatherings and corporate events provide yet another avenue for experiencing nature and cnc's program offerings.
$5,049,723 spent$1,835,967 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,049,723.
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 2022 to 2023, from $41M to $73M (+78%).
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 12% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
63% of CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jeffrey R Corney
President & executive director
Board chair
David Bohl
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 38 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $977k → $1.5M.
11 of 126 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 NATURE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 126 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
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 27% · 2019 24% · 2020 19% · 2021 14% · 2022 15% · 2023 35% — 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
55% of CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
80% of CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 NATURE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 330 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 330 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $100k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Events at Cincinnati Nature Center LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: 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 CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER?
- CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 126 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,001,562 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($1,204,852). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 126 organizations giving $9,001,562 in grants to CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,204,852 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER 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 126 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