Ohio · Nonprofit
FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,793,765 to it, the largest being THE PSALMS FOUNDATION ($1,085,042). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,723 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared funderslocal
- Teammates for Kids Foundationportfolio match
- The Ragland Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
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.
100% of FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $47k → $644k.
6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION’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
FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 74% · 2020 38% · 2021 39% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — 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
44% of FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
94% of FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $185k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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 26 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared funderslocalOH · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 104 organizations near you
- Teammates for Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ragland Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis M Groen Foundation CO Lindhorst & Dreidameportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Charles M Grant Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clh Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wilcox Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bahl & Gaynor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hcs Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 86 organizations near you
- The Thomas J Emery Memorialshared funderslocalOH · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 139 organizations near you
- Sutphin Family Foundation Icashared fundersPA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
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 FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: 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.
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 FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION?
- FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,793,765 to it, the largest being THE PSALMS FOUNDATION ($1,085,042). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $2,793,765 in grants to FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION?
- THE PSALMS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,085,042 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 26funders 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