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CISE

CISE (Ohio) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,871,281 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($3,165,077). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.4M
Funders on record
83
Grants received
$15M
Net assets
$12M
55/83 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Cise does

Mission

The mission of CISE is to transform the lives of urban children by providing access to a strong Catholic education at designated inner-city schools and Catholic high schools. Gospel values are taught in an environment of respect, safety, and discipline. CISE works with schools to promote excellence through collaboration and accountability.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Elementary School Tuition Support ProgramCISE provides funding as tuition assistance to ten Cincinnati inner-city elementary schools so a solid, faith-based education is available to children as an alternative to the public school. CISE's contribution makes the Catholic school education affordable. All families can take advantage of this. Students are 66% non-Catholic, 88% minority population, and 91% impoverished.

    $3,855,590 spentof which $2,668,078 as grants
    65% of program spending
  2. High School Tuition Aid Program Tuition aid is provided to 8th grade graduates of the CISE elementary schools to enable them to continue their education at a Catholic high school.

    $954,650 spentof which $954,650 as grants
    16% of program spending
  3. Math Program Standardized test scores revealed an opportunity to improve Math achievement. Acknowledging that math becomes more challenging in high school CISE enlisted support from the Hamilton County Educational Services Center. Daily, these coaches consult with CISE teachers, co-teach and examine assessments. They ensure all teachers present math content with confidence and that students are mastering the concepts necessary for high school success. Teachers have welcomed the addition of Math Coaches. Reading Program The Science of Reading Program conducted by Mount St Joseph University to help coach teachers with teaching reading in the classrooms. Thus far one school is participating with a plan to have other schools join the program..

    $288,587 spent
    5% of program spending
  4. School Nursing & Mental Health Programs:CISE is helping to provide a full-time nurse in every CISE elementary school. This service ensures minor health concerns don't become major impediments to learning which has proven transformative for students and families. CISE has also partnered with Beech Acres ""Beyond the Classroom"" which connects families to mental health support, as well as financial and community resources, through a Family Engagement Coordinator. High School Student Support:CISE provides funding to the high schools for a CISE advocate to help the students achieve success in high school. Teacher Improvement:Training is being provided to help faculty to be better leaders in the classroom. Athletic opportunities: Time is rented from the Friar's Athletic Club to provide opportunities for involvement in sport programs.Power Packs Program: Hunger is detrimental to learning. When CISE learned many of its students were coming to school on Monday hungry, they partnered with the Freestore Foodbank to provide Power Packs to food-insecure students. A Power Pack contains sufficient food for one child for the weekend. Each Friday during the school year, students, by teacher…

    $862,688 spent
    14% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,961,515.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($5.6M) Net assets 100 ($4.6M)2019 Revenue 50 ($5.1M) Expenses 80 ($4.5M) Net assets 113 ($5.2M)2020 Revenue 199 ($20M) Expenses 76 ($4.3M) Net assets 484 ($22M)2021 Revenue 72 ($7.3M) Expenses 80 ($4.5M) Net assets 546 ($25M)2022 Revenue 128 ($13M) Expenses 229 ($13M) Net assets 541 ($25M)2023 Revenue 67 ($6.8M) Expenses 313 ($18M) Net assets 289 ($13M)2024 Revenue 59 ($6.0M) Expenses 129 ($7.3M) Net assets 270 ($12M)2025 Revenue 63 ($6.4M) Expenses 125 ($7.0M) Net assets 261 ($12M)
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Revenue (63)Expenses (125)Net assets (261)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 $8.8M to $24M (+175%).

$8.3M
$8.8M
$24M
$27M
$27M
$13M
$12M
$12M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of CISE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,744 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$4.6M
’18
$618k
’19
$16M
’20
$2.8M
’21
$174k
’22
−$11M
’23
−$1.2M
’24
−$649k
’25
1.3
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

David Williams

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed4045484950463930
Joined·+5+8+9+3+1+0+3
No longer listed·05825712
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $604k → $1.9M.

17 of 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 CISE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 83 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

CISE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

54% 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 CISE.

21%
largest funder
53%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 37% · 2019 76% · 2020 24% · 2021 42% · 2022 37% · 2023 22% — 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 CISE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

88% of CISE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
KY
DE
NC
GA
FL

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

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’20
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’22
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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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

CISE's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 34 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−6% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,325 religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like CISE

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

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 8%

Governance

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

Public support

69%

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

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • CISE Foundation · exempt
  • Cise Sgo · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CISE: 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 CISE?
CISE (Ohio) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $14,871,281 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($3,165,077). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CISE have?
IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $14,871,281 in grants to CISE, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CISE?
THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,165,077 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CISE 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 83 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