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Cintrifuse

Cintrifuse (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,503 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($369,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.1M
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
$10M
6/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Cintrifuse does

Mission

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Startup, Venture, Innovation Programs - Cintrifuse enables the activation, development and growth of startups by strategically leveraging and connecting a network of partners, all committed to expanding innovation and entrepreneurship across the region. the organization provides a regimen of educational and programmatic services to entrepreneurs and start up including speaker series, innovation exchanges and development. For venture capital funds that come to the greater Cincinnati area, the organization provides an introduction to the ecosystem, by providing connections to start-ups, and established companies, by providing workshops relating to valuation and other issues to get companies, who are seed stage to series a stage ready for the conversation with potential funders.

    $1,498,374 spentof which $32,349 as grants$480,712 earned by the program
    59% of program spending
  2. Union Hall: Cincy's Startup Hub - The coworking, office and event space where high-growth startups find creativity, community and connections.

    $1,026,946 spent$537,686 earned by the program
    41% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,525,320.

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 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($3.1M)2018 Revenue 111 ($3.6M) Expenses 129 ($3.4M) Net assets 107 ($3.3M)2019 Revenue 117 ($3.8M) Expenses 128 ($3.3M) Net assets 120 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 105 ($3.4M) Expenses 118 ($3.1M) Net assets 130 ($4.1M)2021 Revenue 553 ($18M) Expenses 506 ($13M) Net assets 277 ($8.7M)2022 Revenue 116 ($3.7M) Expenses 113 ($2.9M) Net assets 300 ($9.4M)2023 Revenue 126 ($4.1M) Expenses 153 ($4.0M) Net assets 302 ($9.5M)2024 Revenue 129 ($4.1M) Expenses 124 ($3.2M) Net assets 330 ($10M)
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Revenue (129)Expenses (124)Net assets (330)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 2020 to 2021, from $5.4M to $9.1M (+68%).

$3.8M
$3.9M
$4.7M
$5.4M
$9.1M
$9.9M
$10M
$11M
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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
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 35% · 2018 32% · 2019 33% · 2020 30% · 2021 9% · 2022 33% · 2023 32% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of Cintrifuse’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$613k
’17
$206k
’18
$429k
’19
$323k
’20
$4.6M
’21
$798k
’22
$65k
’23
$897k
’24
13
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.

Board chair

Guy Persaud

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

2017201820192020202120222024
Listed33403738414239
Joined·+13+6+8+13+4·
No longer listed·697103·
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $60k → $30k.

2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $2.0M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Greater Cincinnati Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Cintrifuse raised.

From the IRS filings of Cintrifuse’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

Cintrifuse leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

35%
largest funder
78%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 52% · 2019 75% · 2020 46% · 2022 43% · 2023 82% — 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.

How long its funders stay

29% of Cintrifuse's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

Cintrifuse draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.

NY
OH
TX

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Cintrifuse holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin22% · above the median
Months of reserve13.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Cintrifuse

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 22%Fundraising 0%

Governance

30
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

56%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Innovation Hub · disregarded
  • Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund I LLC · partnership
  • Cintrifuse Syndicate Fund II LLC · partnership
  • Cintrifuse Fund Management LLC · partnership
  • Cintrifuse Fund Management II LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Cintrifuse: 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 Cintrifuse?
Cintrifuse (Ohio) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,052,503 to it, the largest being JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION ($369,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cintrifuse have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,052,503 in grants to Cintrifuse, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cintrifuse?
JPMORGAN CHASE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $369,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cintrifuse 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 11 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