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CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION

CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$2k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$4k
Net assets
$25k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Cincinnati USA Sports Commission does

Mission

To foster national and international amateur sports competition through the acquisition, organization and operation of sports events in the Greater Cincinnati region, and to make these events available to the general public.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

EVENT ACQUISITION & DEVELOPMENT: Solicit and acquire (and, if needed, organize and operate) national and international amateur sporting events in the Greater Cincinnati region. Due to COVID-19, all 2021 events were cancelled.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($218k) Expenses 100 ($210k) Net assets 100 ($44k)2018 Revenue 100 ($219k) Expenses 101 ($211k) Net assets 117 ($52k)2019 Revenue 115 ($250k) Expenses 111 ($233k) Net assets 156 ($69k)2020 Revenue 28 ($62k) Expenses 48 ($101k) Net assets 66 ($29k)2021 Revenue 1 ($2k) Expenses 3 ($7k) Net assets 56 ($25k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (1)Expenses (3)Net assets (56)Peer revenue range

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 $77k to $34k (−55%).

$55k
$64k
$77k
$34k
$30k
20172018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$8k
’18
$17k
’19
−$40k
’20
−$5k
’21
4.1
months of
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.

2017201820192020
Listed21242020
Joined·+6+1+0
No longer listed·350
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $3k.

Funder
'17
'20
total
funders
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.2M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of Greater Cincinnati). These are real filings, and they are not money CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION raised.

From the IRS filings of CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION’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 USA SPORTS COMMISSION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.

“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

CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 2 states in all.

OH
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’20
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−202% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−68% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,546 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2021

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05Profile & governance

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

OH

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION: 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 USA SPORTS COMMISSION?
CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION (Ohio) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being Enterprise Holdings Foundation ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,500 in grants to CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION.
Who is the largest funder of CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION?
Enterprise Holdings Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CINCINNATI USA SPORTS COMMISSION 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 2 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