Ohio · Nonprofit
LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK
LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK (Ohio) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,208,079 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($908,750). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $831k
What Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati Dba Queen City Book Bank does
Mission
The literacy network of greater cincinnati is proud to work in tandem with our community to champion the development of literacy through tutoring, little free libraries, literacy outreach and guaranteeing book access for all of our neighbors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The literacy network of greater cincinnati is proud to work in tandem with our community to champion the development of literacy through tutoring, little free libraries, literacy outreach and guaranteeing book access for all of our neighbors.
$990,882 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $990,882.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $552k to $689k (+25%).
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 12% · 2022 15% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Michelle Otten Guenther
CEO
Board chair
Katy Meinhardt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $81k → $617k.
7 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
46% 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 LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 50% · 2019 62% · 2020 31% · 2021 33% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% — 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
54% of LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
81% of LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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.
Organizations like LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK?
- LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK (Ohio) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,208,079 to it, the largest being JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($908,750). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $3,208,079 in grants to LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK?
- JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $908,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 50 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing