Ohio · Nonprofit
GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,957 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($473,324). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $837k
- Net assets
- $367k
What Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless does
Mission
ERADICATION OF HOMELESSNESS: The Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition is a unified social action agency, fully committed to its ultimate goal: the eradication of homelessness with respect for the dignity and diversity of its membership, people experiencing homelessness and the community. Our Coalition works towards this goal by coordinating services, educating the public, and engaging in grassroots organizing and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
ADVOCACY, COMMUNITY ORGANIZING & POLICY (GREATER CINCINNATI UNITED HOMELESS CONGRESS): 2025 was the year of the Homeless Congress! The Greater Cincinnati United Homeless Congress was birthed following the historic lawsuit that was settled between us and the City of Cincinnati. The Homeless Congress was established to represent those experiencing homelessness in all forms: whether outdoors, bouncing from couch to couch, in a car, or shelter living, we desired every voice, because, while systemic, the experience of homelessness is not monolithic. In 2025, we were able to establish consistent meeting times with our folks at both Shelterhouse's men's and women's shelters, Our Daily Bread (ODB), Bethany House family shelter, outdoor camps, and at the library. The formation of this group excited many of our folks and dozens of people were interested in joining. This led to the group deciding to formalize membership. The group decided elected representation from each form of homelessness would establish the authenticity of the group. Thus, elections were held at each shelter, ODB, and libraries. People nominated themselves or someone else. After a month of elections at the shelters, the…
$105,099 spent$2,407 earned by the program38% of program spendingPUBLIC EDUCATION: This year, we successfully delivered all our established programs, broadened our reach through new initiatives, laid the groundwork for programs that will shape our future work, and responded proactively to social and political changes. We found that many members of our Homeless Congress are eager for the opportunity to educate through our SPEAKERS' BUREAU and share their stories directly with the general public and elected officials. We brought both experienced and new Speakers to dozens of different groups, reaching thousands of people ranging from middle school age to senior citizens. We reached students, community organizations, and elected officials. In addition to our regular programming, we have educated the public about specific, timely issues and policies through podcasts, performance, and rallies. We have utilized engagements through our SPEAKERS' BUREAU, SOCIAL JUSTICE TOURS, ALTERNATIVE BREAKS, STREETVIBES SHADOWS, and TRAININGS to inform the wide range of participants about harmful policies pursued being pushed from a variety of directions- policies that would force people back into the experience of homelessness, further limit access to affordable…
$82,655 spent$23,480 earned by the program30% of program spendingMEMBERSHIP & SERVICE COORDINATION: The Homeless Coalition is an organization founded on and driven by our members. Our membership includes our primary constituency - People experiencing homelessness throughout Greater Cincinnati: people residing in shelters and transitional housing, living outside and in places not meant for human habitation, and households who are bouncing from one doubled-up situation to another. We have dozens of direct service provider member organizations which provide services including all forms of shelter, affordable housing development, subsidized housing, supportive housing, street outreach, mental and medical health services, addiction detox and recovery, spiritual care, food and meal provisions, clothing, domestic violence response, services for school children, legal services, housing discrimination prevention and response and more. We facilitate the connection of our many members not only in the areas of advocacy and education, but also in the strategic implementation of services. Some words from our MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS: Independence Alliance: Independence Alliance recognizes the value that the Homeless Coalition brings to Greater Cincinnati through…
$50,700 spent$44,194 earned by the program18% of program spendingSTREETVIBES: Focusing on homelessness and social justice issues, Streetvibes reports the often-invisible story of poverty in our community. Streetvibes is also proud to include creative writing, poetry, articles, photography, and interviews written by homeless and formerly homeless individuals. Distributed by individuals experiencing homelessness or on the edge of homelessness in exchange for a $2.00 donation, the paper creates both income opportunities and space for voices that deserve to be heard. In the year ahead, we're focused on increasing our distributors and expanding our reach. We're exploring ways to strengthen our digital presence, which may include using social media more intentionally, publishing select articles from the monthly paper on our blog, and rebuilding our online footprint. We're also developing a project that will highlight the writings of our distributors by turning their work into poster displays paired with digital content to make their creativity more visible throughout the community. Looking forward, we plan to host monthly open mic nights at Buddy's Place and launch weekly writing group meetings on Thursdays at 2:30 p.m., creating more avenues for…
$39,797 spent$7,667 earned by the program14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $278,251.
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.
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 $491k to $412k (−16%).
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: 2019 4% · 2020 3% · 2021 19% · 2022 8% · 2023 11% · 2024 0% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Josh Spring
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $33k → $239k.
6 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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: $14k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS’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
GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 59% · 2019 51% · 2020 85% · 2021 58% · 2022 37% · 2023 42% — 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
33% of GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
74% of GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS'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 $220k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $617k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS
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
77% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS?
- GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS (Ohio) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $836,957 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($473,324). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $836,957 in grants to GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $473,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER CINCINNATI COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 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 18 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