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GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC

GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,713 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($60,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$123k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$83k
Net assets
$319k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%
01What it does

What Greater Cincinnati Police Historical Society Inc does

Mission

To operate a museum to preserve and display over 200 years of Greater Cincinnati law enforcement history

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($102k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 100 ($232k)2021 Revenue 116 ($118k) Expenses 105 ($90k) Net assets 112 ($260k)2022 Revenue 126 ($128k) Expenses 127 ($109k) Net assets 120 ($279k)2023 Revenue 108 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 131 ($303k)2024 Revenue 80 ($82k) Expenses 113 ($97k) Net assets 124 ($288k)2025 Revenue 120 ($123k) Expenses 107 ($92k) Net assets 138 ($319k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (120)Expenses (107)Net assets (138)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $289k to $319k (+11%).

$236k
$264k
$279k
$304k
$289k
$319k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$16k
’20
$28k
’21
$19k
’22
$24k
’23
−$15k
’24
$31k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $72.

3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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

GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

87% 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 POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC.

73%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.

Where its funders are

80% of GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC'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 $17k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from Ohio funders.

OH
KY
FL

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

’19
’20
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,713 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($60,350). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $82,713 in grants to GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC?
THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $60,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER CINCINNATI POLICE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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