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General Electric Credit Union

Cincinnati, OH · EIN 31-0568628. Reported 41 grants totalling $620,300 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

34organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$620,300granted, 2021-2024
29%of grantees funded again the next year
15%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 15% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 29% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $6,800 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $95,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
23 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Zoological Society of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$95,000112024
Cincinnati Zoo & BotanicalCincinatti, OH$90,000112023
Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association IncChicago, IL$51,000332023
Mercy Health FoundationCincinatti, OH$34,000112023
Greater Cincinnati Automobile Dealers Association IncCincinnati, OH$30,000332024
Grant US Hope IncCincinnati, OH$29,500222023
Xavier UniversityCincinnati, OH$25,000112024
Xavier UniversityCincinatti, OH$25,000112023
Cure Starts Now IncCincinnati, OH$20,000222024
Corporation for Findlay Market of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$17,000222023
Nest Community Learning CenterLoveland, OH$15,000112023
United Way of KentuckyLouisville, KY$15,000112021
Beech Acres Parenting CenterCincinnati, OH$10,000112022
Be ConcernedCovington, KY$10,000112023
Childrens Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH$10,000112022
Homeless Animal Rescue Team of CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$10,000112022
La Soupe IncCincinnati, OH$10,000112021
Music Resource CenterCincinnati, OH$10,000112021
New Life Furniture IncCincinnati, OH$10,000112024
Operation Give BackBlue Ash, OH$10,000112021
Pathways to HomeHarrison, OH$10,000112024
Save the Animals FoundationCincinnati, OH$10,000112024
Yellow Ribbon SupportCincinatti, OH$10,000112023
Bon Secours Mercy Health FoundationBlue Ash, OH$7,500112024
Home Builders Association of Greater CincinnatiCincinnati, OH$7,500112024
St Gregory GroupCincinatti, OH$6,800112023
Pink Ribbon Good IncTroy, OH$6,000112024
Pink Ribbon GoodDayton, OH$6,000112023
American Volkssport Association IncCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Building Blocks FoundationMason, OH$5,000112024
Easter Seals TristateCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Habitat for Humanity International IncCincinnati, OH$5,000112024
Lakota Sports OrganizationWest Chester, OH$5,000112024
Urban Light Ministries IncorporatedSpringfield, OH$5,000112024

5 of 34 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 22 of 34 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Animal Welfare
3 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
3 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Religion
2 orgs
Mutual Benefit
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20217$85,000$10,000
20227$84,000$10,000
202311$235,300$11,000
202416$216,000$6,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

88% of its giving went to organizations in Ohio. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Ohio
$544K
Illinois
$51K
Kentucky
$25K

Down to the city

Cincinnati, OH
$309K
Cincinatti, OH
$166K
Chicago, IL
$51K
Blue Ash, OH
$18K
Loveland, OH
$15K
Louisville, KY
$15K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund17 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsThe Greater Cincinnati Foundation14 shared recipientsGe Aerospace Foundation14 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation11 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Ohio.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from General Electric Credit Union's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 11311 Cornell Park Drive 124, Cincinnati, OH, 45242.

EIN 31-0568628 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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