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Community Matters Cincinnati Inc

Community Matters Cincinnati Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,052,320 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($649,314). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$1.8M
Revenue FY2025
39
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$3.7M
Net assets
16/39 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%

Against its field

Community Matters Cincinnati Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)20% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($512k) Expenses 100 ($729k) Net assets 100 ($735k)2019 Revenue 128 ($656k) Expenses 93 ($680k) Net assets 97 ($712k)2020 Revenue 127 ($650k) Expenses 97 ($704k) Net assets 89 ($658k)2021 Revenue 223 ($1.1M) Expenses 117 ($856k) Net assets 133 ($981k)2022 Revenue 271 ($1.4M) Expenses 165 ($1.2M) Net assets 158 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 251 ($1.3M) Expenses 241 ($1.8M) Net assets 513 ($3.8M)2024 Revenue 332 ($1.7M) Expenses 256 ($1.9M) Net assets 490 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 358 ($1.8M) Expenses 250 ($1.8M) Net assets 499 ($3.7M)
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Revenue (358)Expenses (250)Net assets (499)Peer revenue range

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.

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2019
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2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 12% · 2022 15% · 2023 7% · 2024 8% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of Community Matters Cincinnati Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$217k
18
$24k
19
$54k
20
$286k
21
$184k
22
$474k
23
$168k
24
$9k
25
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $73k → $238k.

8 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)37% 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: $36k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Education Matters Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money Community Matters Cincinnati Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Community Matters Cincinnati Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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

Community Matters Cincinnati Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

65% 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 Community Matters Cincinnati Inc.

32%
largest funder
57%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 76% · 2019 56% · 2020 38% · 2021 44% · 2022 40% · 2023 33%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

29% of Community Matters Cincinnati Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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

80% of Community Matters Cincinnati Inc's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
KY
MD
DE
TN
NC

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $757k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

03Its place in the field

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 39 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Organizations like Community Matters Cincinnati Inc

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 2%Fundraising 6%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

88%

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 1 related entity

  • Community Matters Holdings LLC · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Matters Cincinnati Inc: 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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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 Community Matters Cincinnati Inc?
Community Matters Cincinnati Inc (Ohio) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,052,320 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($649,314). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Community Matters Cincinnati Inc have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $2,052,320 in grants to Community Matters Cincinnati Inc, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Community Matters Cincinnati Inc?
THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $649,314 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Community Matters Cincinnati Inc 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 39funders 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