Ohio · Nonprofit
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,227,547 to it, the largest being HCS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati does
Mission
To empower individuals, educate families, enhance communities and together celebrate the extraordinary lives of people with down syndrome.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025 we welcomed 30 new families and delivered 12 hospital care packages. We were able to host programs for 2,786 participants. We had 68 home visits with our aging adults. We were able to gift 217 children with presents at the holiday season through our giving tree program. 29 riders worked toward riding a bike independently at ican bike camp. 50 cheerleaders participated in the dsagc cheer squad and 26 spots were filled in our individualized tutoring programs. There was 48 peer presentations completed at schools with 100% of parents agreeing that our school advocacy services enhanced their ability to advocate for their child. 32 children awaiting adoption were placed with a loving family! 27 family assistance funds were distributed. 58 adults participated in the find your way program with 20 career quest program participants. We had over 15,000 buddy walk participants. With over 900 volunteers helping to make all this happen.
$1,217,621 spentof which $68,305 as grants$36,994 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,217,621.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $3.9M (+69%).
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 9% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Elizabeth Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $59k → $344k.
16 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 33% · 2019 47% · 2020 21% · 2021 22% · 2022 50% · 2023 15% — 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
45% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
53% of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.1M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.
Organizations like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI: 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 DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI?
- DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,227,547 to it, the largest being HCS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $2,227,547 in grants to DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI?
- HCS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 61 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