Most frequent recipients of Leveraged Support, etc. (2020-2026)

Most Frequently Funded External Recipients 3.8.26

 

For the past 7 -10 years, Cincinnati  has steadily outsourced city functions to nonprofit organizations. Since 2020, the city’s budget has evolved to include tables in the annual budget for “Leveraged Support,” “Funding for Competitive Grant Programs,” and “City Operations Programmatic Support and Recipients.”

These categories represent funding for external organizations to carry out governmental functions.  This is not a slight against nonprofit organizations. But this outsourcing makes it much more difficult for taxpayers to know what is happening with public funds. i.e., transparency and accountability.

We have developed a data base of funding for those three categories of external support based on city budget documents for the period 2020 to 2026.

The first thing you notice is that many of the same organizations receive funding every year. Meaning: the process is not a true competition and more significantly, these organizations are essentially part of the city government without the transparency and accountability.

The link above will take yo to the list of “Most Frequently Funded Recipients.” We will be posting additional analysis that could be of interest.