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KEEP CINCINNATI BEAUTIFUL INC

EIN 31-0948219 CINCINNATI, OH

Revenue 2024
$2,396,241
Expenses 2024
$1,913,571

Program services were 45.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
C500
Classification
1000
Street
1115 BATES AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Keep Cincinnati Beautiful is an award-winning not for profit organization educating and encouraging individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To provide promotional and educational services to beautify the city of Cincinnati.

  • Our Arts Program brings color and vibrancy to Cincinnati neighborhoods, demonstrating commitment to and care for overlooked spaces. We saw a decrease of 26% blight and 18% crime in the areas we served in 2024. We believe that through collaboration art is a catalyst for community transformation. Working in partnership with neighborhoods, non-profits, local companies, and other artists, our team alongside volunteers artistically improve and reimagine neglected spaces. Eyesores in a community like vacant buildings, crumbling retaining walls, abandoned alleys, and vandalized traffic boxes are transformed into community assets through site specific, dynamic works of art. Collectively our work aims to reduce blight, crime, and litter, while increasing economic development and access to public art. Our multifaceted artistic approach to neighborhood improvement and engagement serve as positive interventions to promote equity and improve the quality of life for all residents of Cincinnati.

    Expenses $115,892 · Grants $17,153

  • Over the past 20 years, KCB has provided free educational opportunities to a variety of groups with the goal of cultivating community stewardship and the connection between people, passion, and place. In 2024 we reached 1083 students through 36 departmental events. Our current education initiatives feature a hands-on approach to learning, allowing students to get out of the classroom and learn new skills. We hope these good stewards become future leaders in their communities who work alongside the city and community partners like KCB to envision and actualize a greener Cincinnati. Our Tree the CRC initiative supports the 2023 Green Cincinnati Plan to increase equity of the urban tree canopy focusing on Cincinnati Recreation Centers and playgrounds in areas of the city that are currently under the 40% the Green Cincinnati Plan seeks to maintain. This year nearly 200 students earned community service hours toward their graduation seals participating in the program. In the pilot year of our new Roots to Boots initiative, a paid workforce development program that prepares young adults for careers in horticulture, landscaping, and greenspace management we saw the completion of over 1200 hours of in-field experience actualized. The goal of the program is that by offering hands-on, in-field experience, paired with skill-building and exposure this will lead to real career pathways and employers in the green economy for participants.

    Expenses $111,621 · Grants $33,833

  • Our Greenspace and Environmental Services programs are aimed at helping improve neighborhoods across Cincinnati where ecological issues occur, equitable life is not flourishing, and consequential community infrastructures are in need of support. Through our Spaces to Places projects we aim to provide assistance for Cincinnatians by turning overgrown, vacant spaces into clean, green, healthy, and beautiful places filled with life in the neighborhoods of our wonderful Queen City. The goal of the program is to be able to build equitable and healthy communities by encouraging people to restore underutilized public spaces into socially, culturally, and environmentally responsible spaces that reflect the social character of the neighborhood. Through strategic community partnerships and a strong working relationship with the Cincinnati Police Department, Department of Public Services, and the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, we also are working to eradicate illegal dumping through dumpsite monitoring and volunteer cleanup days. Together we cleaned up 247,483 pounds of debris (roughly the size of one blue whale) this past fiscal year. We had 1350+ vehicles participate in our Don't Dump the 'Nati events throughout our 9 event season.

    Expenses $110,058 · Grants $47,044

  • Part of the core mission of our organization is to uplift community-driven beautification efforts. We utilize community engagement in all of our program areas to ensure the goals that we work towards are in line with the wants and needs of the neighborhoods we work in. Working alongside stakeholders, partners, and residents allows us to be intentional in our efforts to equitably improve our city's public spaces. This collaboration allows us to understand the unique challenges and opportunities within each neighborhood, fostering a sense of ownership and pride among residents. The Safe and Clean initiative is intended for projects based on crime prevention through environmental design where improved beautification enhances community ownership and reduces violence. This funding is open for organizations prioritizing youth-led initiatives to promote positive physical changes in neighborhoods. Specific focus points are established for each grant cycle and include priorities like engaging youth leaders, promoting physical changes in environment and shared spaces, implementing crime prevention principles through environmental design, enhancing community ownership, and focusing on high-crime neighborhoods. The program was able to fund 24 projects in the last fiscal year contributing to an 18% decrease in crime for areas served. In addition our community engagement initiatives like Adopt-a-Spot saw to 138 community-led cleanups with 250 Adopt-a-Spot champions covering over 1,000 acres of public land.

    Expenses $533,672 · Grants $350,141

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Courtney Reitman-Deinlein

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Geoffrey Leder

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jamie Turner

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kari Armbruster

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kate Reed

    Board Governance Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Alen Amini

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Barb Wriston-Ruddy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Benjamin Bowles

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Bri Kramer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Brooke Rapp

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Damany Abernathy

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dan Schimberg

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • David Castillo Gocher

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dean Ferrier

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Erin O'Grady

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kate Fortlage

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kathleen Crawford

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Katie Cannon-Sprague

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kyle Ludlow

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lesley Schaefer Koth

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Megan Okun

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michael Golden

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rosalyn Whickum

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Roseann Hassey

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Tim O'Connell

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,396,241
    Expenses
    $1,913,571
    Contributions
    $2,348,453
    Grants paid
    $448,171
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,035,898
    Expenses
    $2,200,816
    Contributions
    $2,048,051
    Grants paid
    $441,479
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $5,144,857
    Expenses
    $5,191,868
    Contributions
    $5,136,757
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,152,359
    Expenses
    $908,036
    Assets (EOY)
    $612,902

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $863,711
    Expenses
    $868,647
    Assets (EOY)
    $359,155

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $928,395
    Expenses
    $854,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $356,117

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $901,423
    Expenses
    $849,881
    Assets (EOY)
    $301,153

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $806,288
    Expenses
    $730,961
    Assets (EOY)
    $245,903

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $827,172
    Expenses
    $899,251
    Assets (EOY)
    $222,487

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,160,523
    Expenses
    $1,205,043
    Assets (EOY)
    $292,926

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,089,886
    Expenses
    $1,101,883
    Assets (EOY)
    $244,613

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,246,453
    Expenses
    $1,182,848
    Assets (EOY)
    $349,159

  • 2011 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,007,954
    Assets (EOY)
    $180,661

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.