Ohio · Nonprofit
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,856,012 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($1,204,852). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 329 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 329 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared funders
- Bailey Lamson Family Fdtnportfolio match
- Spaulding Foundationshared funders
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.
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 (88% 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
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 124 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 124 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 14% 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; 65% 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
67% 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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 124 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared fundersOH · backs 103 organizations that share your funders
- Bailey Lamson Family Fdtnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spaulding Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 79 organizations that share your funders
- Pfau Charitable Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- Trust Estate of George B Rileyshared fundersOH · backs 36 organizations that share your funders
- Marge & Charles J Schott Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 102 organizations that share your funders
- Trihealth Incshared fundersOH · backs 34 organizations that share your funders
- Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005shared fundersKY · backs 129 organizations that share your funders
- Farmer Family Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 95 organizations that share your funders
- Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1shared fundersOH · backs 83 organizations that share your funders
- Cincinnati Institute of Fine Artsshared fundersOH · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Incshared fundersOH · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER?
- CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,856,012 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($1,204,852). 80 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $8,856,012 in grants to CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER, 80 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.
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 124funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing