Ohio · Nonprofit
THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 389 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,366,469 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($23,301,092). 235 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $147M
- Funders on record
- 389
- Grants received
- $208M
- Net assets
- $928M
What The University of Cincinnati Foundation does
Mission
Mission: to inspire a community of uc and uc health supporters through the power of philanthropy. Vision: igniting passion to transform lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The uc foundation is the fundraising entity for the university of cincinnati. The uc foundation exists to advance the futures of the university, its colleges, units, departments, faculty and students through philanthropy and to promote alumni engagement. All program service allocations are made to or for the benefit of the university of cincinnati. In addition to the above, the uc foundation also provides fundraising services for uc health and records donations received by the lindner center of hope. The donations recorded by the uc foundation for uc health, the lindner center of hope and donations received directly by the university of cincinnati are not included in the form 990 as contribution and grant revenue.
$87,058,753 spentof which $83,280,206 as grants$31,313,477 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $87,058,753.
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 2020 to 2021, from $616M to $758M (+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: 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
56% of THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Leigh R Fox
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 93 funders to 188 funders, grant income rose $12M → $29M.
52 of 389 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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: $775k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Uc Healthcare System). These are real filings, and they are not money THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 389 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
THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 27% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 43% · 2022 12% · 2023 16% — 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
44% of THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION'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
69% of THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $80M arriving through sponsors registered in 21 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
THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION's funding base is broadening — from 93 funders to 188 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 71 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Ucf Real Estate LLC · disregarded
- Ucf Holdings LLC · disregarded
- University of Cincinnati · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION?
- THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION (Ohio) receives grants from 389 organizations whose IRS filings report $208,366,469 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($23,301,092). 235 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 389 organizations giving $208,366,469 in grants to THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION, 235 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,301,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 389 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