Ohio · Nonprofit
HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI
HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,285,423 to it, the largest being THE JAMES J AND JOAN A GARDNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,060,040). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Millstone Fundshared funderslocalportfolio match
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared funders
- Louis & Melba Schott Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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: 2021 13% · 2022 4% · 2023 8% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 32 funders to 30 funders, grant income fell $709k → $678k.
8 of 89 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 89 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
HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 33% · 2019 28% · 2020 14% · 2021 26% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% — 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
40% of HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
84% of HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 89 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Millstone Fundshared funderslocalportfolio matchOH · backs 100 organizations that share your funders · funds 125 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phdshared fundersOH · backs 84 organizations that share your funders
- Louis & Melba Schott Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neediest Kids of Allportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Most Valuable Kids of Greater Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Board of Trustees of Woodward High Schoolportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fc Cincinnati Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Patricia Kisker Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew Jergens Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cincinnati Woman's Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Abington Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 62 organizations that share your funders · funds 104 organizations near you
- Charles H Dater Foundation Incshared fundersOH · backs 104 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 HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 HOPE IGNITES 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.
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 HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI?
- HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI (Ohio) receives grants from 89 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,285,423 to it, the largest being THE JAMES J AND JOAN A GARDNER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,060,040). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI have?
- IRS filings report 89 organizations giving $7,285,423 in grants to HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI?
- THE JAMES J AND JOAN A GARDNER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,060,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE IGNITES 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 89funders 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