Ohio · Nonprofit
GRAD CINCINNATI INC
GRAD CINCINNATI INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,360 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($796,534). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $528k
What Grad Cincinnati Inc does
Mission
Grad cincinnati raises expectation and achievement for all students by building high impact partnerships within the community to provide a premiere college readiness, access and support program.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Campus family support - grad cincinnati has seven resource coordinators. They are located at western hills university high school, taft information technology high school, riverview east academy, cincinnati digital academy, roll hill, westwood elementary and ethel taylor academy. The general function of the resource coordinator is to support the district-wide community learning center initiative of creating schools as centers of the community. The resource coordinator initiate, facilitate and maintain programs and strategies that are aligned with the school's one plan, as well as youth and community development goals. They develop and promote and further the wisest use of community resources to create optimal positive impact by enhancing(program narrative continues in schedule o) community and individual assets, meeting with critical human service's needs, and promoting long-term community solutions. Two of the main responsibilities of the resource coordinator are to lead monthly partner meetings to ensure ongoing synergistic, coordinated and intergraded working seamlessly with the staff and prepare monthly reports for submission to the school district and agency leadership…
$613,695 spent56% of program spending21st century community learning center (cclc) after school program - the 21st cclc program is authorized under title iv, part b of the elementary and secondary education act (esea), as amended by the no child left behind act of 2001 (nclb). The program provides for out of school time academic enrichment opportunities for students on riverview east academy campus, who come from economically disadvantaged families and attend a low-performing school to help them meet local and state academic standards in reading and mathematics. Programs provide youth development activities such as drug and violence prevention and intervention, art, and music activities, character education, counseling and recreation to enhance the program's academic components. (program narrative continues in schedule o) additionally, programs will focus on parent and family engagement outcomestitle 1, part a (title 1) of the elementary and secondary education act, as amended (esea) provides financial assistance to local educational agencies (leas) and schools with high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards. All…
$292,486 spent27% of program spendingCollege, career and scholarships programs- in the 9th grade parents and students are made aware of the grad scholarship which outlines the course, grade point average, summer institute and counseling requirements to qualify for a scholarship from grad. In the summer students must participate in two summer institutes on a college campus where they take courses to stimulate the college experience; they must maintain a 2.7 g.p.a.; graduate from high school within four years and be accepted to an accredited college or university. The dollars for the scholarship must be raised by grad cincinnati board and be in place prior to students graduating from high school. A college readiness coordinator is on staff to track students and assist with all college access information. (program narrative continues in schedule o) grad supports 1400 students with college access services. Twenty-eight scholarships were disbursed to students in 2025.
$187,411 spentof which $10,500 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,093,592.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $348k to $430k (+23%).
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: 2017 49% · 2018 50% · 2019 76% · 2020 69% · 2021 67% · 2022 78% · 2023 83% · 2024 84% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GRAD CINCINNATI INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Patricia Stewart-Adams
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $78k → $78k.
5 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 GRAD CINCINNATI INC’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
GRAD CINCINNATI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 GRAD CINCINNATI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 100% · 2020 58% · 2021 43% · 2022 64% · 2023 100% — 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
67% of GRAD CINCINNATI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of GRAD CINCINNATI INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $89k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
GRAD CINCINNATI INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GRAD CINCINNATI INC
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GRAD CINCINNATI INC?
- GRAD CINCINNATI INC (Ohio) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,123,360 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($796,534). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GRAD CINCINNATI INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,123,360 in grants to GRAD CINCINNATI INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GRAD CINCINNATI INC?
- United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $796,534 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GRAD 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.
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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 12 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