What Impact 100 does

Impact 100 Cincinnati is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit collective-giving organization that pools individual donations from its 400+ women members to award high-impact, six-figure grants to Greater Cincinnati nonprofits. Founded in 2001, it is the original chapter of the Impact 100 model, which has since been replicated in nearly 80 chapters worldwide. The organization operates on a simple model in which each member contributes approximately $1,000 annually, with those funds aggregated to award transformational $100,000 grants to selected recipient organizations, supplemented by $10,000 Extend Your Impact Awards. Over 25 years, Impact 100 Cincinnati has awarded more than $7.7 million across 71 grants.

The organization's technology stack is built on a standard WordPress content management foundation augmented by a third-party association management platform provided by Vieth Consulting, used to manage member applications, dues payment, grant applications, and committee workflows. There is no proprietary technology, no data moat, and no AI/ML capabilities described in available materials. Operational governance is volunteer-led, with members serving on Grant Review Teams, committees, and the Board, including the recently appointed President-elect Jenny Berg.

Impact 100 Cincinnati's business model is a hybrid of collective-giving philanthropy. Primary revenue is generated through membership dues (offered at Activate $500 and Accelerate $1,000 tiers) and corporate sponsorships structured at four levels ranging from $2,500 (Friend) to $30,000 (Premier). Supplementary revenue sources include direct donations, ticketed events, and planned giving. The 2026 grant cycle carries a record 146 applications and a $430,000 total grant pool funded primarily through member contributions. The go-to-market motion is member-driven: existing members recruit new members through peer referral, and the 2026 expansion includes a Young Philanthropists sub-brand targeted at a younger demographic cohort.

Name

Impact 100

Legal name

Impact 100 Cincinnati

Website

https://impact100.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2001

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Impact 100 Cincinnati is a 501(c)(3) women's collective-giving organization that pools ~$1,000 contributions from 450+ members to award $100,000 transformational grants and $10,000 supplemental awards to Greater Cincinnati nonprofits.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Women's Collective Giving / Community Philanthropy

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Arts, Culture & Humanities Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Impact Investing & Social Finance (Funds, CDFIs, Microfinance) (BPAGALAA), Advancement Services & Donor Operations (CRM, Gift Processing, Stewardship) (EDALAOAD), Fundraising & Annual Giving (EDALAOAB)

Keywords

• Collective giving philanthropy
• Women's giving circles
• Transformational grantmaking
• Community grant funding
• Nonprofit pooled giving

Headquarters

HQ city

Cincinnati

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership dues: Recurring annual contributions from members. Two tiers referenced: Accelerate ($1,000) and Activate ($500). New and returning members join through impact100.org/membership via the Vieth Consulting member platform. Membership deadline is December 1 for the following year.
2. Direct donations: One-time and recurring gifts from non-members and supporters. Channels include online donation, mailed checks (payable to Impact 100 Cincinnati), Donor Advised Fund (DAF) gifts, gifts of stock (via online stock-transfer form), and company matching gifts. Company matches are used as operational donations.
3. Corporate sponsorships: Four-tier sponsorship program that supports operations (separate from grant pool): Premier $30,000, Partner $10,000, Advocate $5,000, Friend $2,500. Benefits include Annual Awards Celebration VIP tickets, signage, website placement, and inclusion in event collateral.
4. Legacy / planned giving: Planned gift program: members and supporters can include Impact 100 in wills or trusts, or name the organization as a beneficiary of retirement plans and insurance. Conversions initiated via [email protected].
5. Event ticket sales and third-party fundraising: Paid attendance at events such as the Annual Awards Celebration ($90/$110 per attendee) and ancillary events like the Education Event ($25/$35). The organization also participates in the Queen Bee Half Marathon Walk/Run, where racers and walkers can fundraise on Impact 100's behalf.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Impact 100 Cincinnati is a 501(c)(3) women's collective giving organization that pools $1,000 contributions from 400+ (now 450+) women members into $100,000 transformational grants awarded to vetted Greater Cincinnati 501(c)(3) nonprofits. Members vote democratically on grant recipients at the Annual Awards Celebration, supported by a multi-stage grant review process (Letter of Intent, five Grant Review Teams, CIRC, site visits). A secondary Extend Your Impact Award tier provides $10,000 grants; corporate sponsorships and direct donations support operations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Impact 100 Young Philanthropists: A program within Impact 100 Cincinnati offering scholarship membership to women under 40, with social events and a pathway into the broader Impact 100 collective giving model.

Products and services

• Impact 100 Cincinnati Membership (Activate / Accelerate tiers) Annual women's collective giving membership through which 400+ (now 450+) members pool their $500 or $1,000 contributions to fund $100,000 transformational grants for Greater Cincinnati nonprofits. Members vote to award grants at the Annual Awards Celebration and gain access to learning, volunteer, and social programs across 9+ events annually.
• Transformational Grant Program ($100,000 awards) Flagship annual grantmaking program awarding $100,000 transformational grants to vetted 501(c)(3) nonprofits serving the 10-county Greater Cincinnati region. Awardees are selected through a multi-stage process (Letter of Intent, five Grant Review Teams, CIRC financial deep dive, site visits, finalist presentations, ranked member voting at the Annual Awards Celebration).
• Extend Your Impact Award Program ($10,000 awards) Secondary, smaller grant tier ($10,000 awards) layered on top of the four flagship $100,000 Transformational Grants. Enables Impact 100 to fund additional finalist organizations and stretch member dollars further; the 2026 cycle plans three Extend Your Impact awards alongside the four transformational grants.
• Corporate Sponsorship Program (Premier / Partner / Advocate / Friend tiers) Four-tier corporate sponsorship program (Premier $30,000; Partner $10,000; Advocate $5,000; Friend $2,500) that supports Impact 100's operations separately from the grant pool. Sponsorship benefits include VIP tickets to the Annual Awards Celebration and Signature Events, marquee and signage placement, sponsor display tables, spotlight digital media coverage, and website logo placement.
• Annual Awards Celebration (signature gala) Flagship annual signature event held at Cincinnati Music Hall Ballroom where members and guests gather to celebrate the year's grantees and watch the live announcement of $100,000 Transformational Grant and $10,000 Extend Your Impact Award recipients. Per-attendee ticket pricing ($90 early-bird / $110 after 9/10/25) includes dinner and two drink tickets.
• Young Philanthropists Program Sub-brand scholarship membership program for women under 40, offering reduced-rate access to the Impact 100 collective giving model, social events, and a structured pathway into the full Activate/Accelerate membership tiers.

Quantifiable outcome

• $7.7 million awarded (nearly $8 million per June 2026 article) across 71 grants over 25 years
• +12 more outcomes

Named customers17 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

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API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

19 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship / core, minor and moderate.

• Vieth Consultingflagship / coreTechnology or IntegrationVieth Consulting provides the association management platform that powers Impact 100 Cincinnati's online member registration (newmem/new-mem-reg.php?org_id=ICIN), member login (members/member_login.php?org_id=ICIN), donations (members/wish/donate.php?org_id=ICIN), gift-of-stock transfers (members/form.php?orgcode=ICIN), event registration, and broadcast/newsletters (msg_detail.php). The platform is the operational backbone for member and donor operations.
• Cincinnati Magazine + Madeira Chamber of CommerceminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-hosts the annual Girls' Night Out event in downtown Madeira (June 3, 2026). Impact 100 is the featured nonprofit at the event; members attend in spirit wear and operate an Impact 100 booth to recruit attendees.
• Queen Bee Half Marathon (community race organizer)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerImpact 100 fields a running/walking team and an aid-station volunteer crew at the Queen Bee Half Marathon (created by Flying Pig Marathon organizers). About 6,000 walkers/runners participate, mostly women. Racers can fundraise on Impact 100's behalf; the broader Queen Bee event raises funds for charities focusing on women. Impact 100 receives a 25% discount code for its team.
• Music Hall (Cincinnati)minorOthersVenue partner for the Annual Awards Celebration (1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202). Has hosted the AAC for multiple years; Marilyn Kinne article notes members like the 'big venue at Music Hall'.
• Cooper Creek Event CenterminorOthersVenue for the 2025 Impact 100 Giving Tuesday Event (December 2, 2025; 4040 Cooper Rd, Blue Ash, OH 45241).
• Great Oaks Career Campuses (Sharonville)minorOthersVenue for the 2026 Grant Review Team (GRT) Kickoff Event (Jan 7, 2026, 300 Scarlet Oaks Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45241). Provided school facilities for member orientation/training.
• MadTree Parks & RecminorOthersVenue for the Member Connect event (March 3, 2026; 4321 Glendale Milford Rd, Blue Ash, OH 45242).
• PNC Bank (Cincinnati)minorOthersVenue for the New Member Happy Hour (Feb 2, 2026; 201 E. 5th St., Cincinnati, OH 45202).
• CityLink CentermoderateGTM or Marketing PartnerHosted the May 4, 2026 Education Event 'Philanthropy — Past, Present & Possibility' (800 Bank St. — now William L. Mallory, Sr. St. — Cincinnati, OH 45214). CityLink is also a past Impact 100 grant recipient (2024 Every Mother's Advocate program). The reciprocal relationship — venue + grantee + thought partner — gives CityLink visibility while providing Impact 100 a relevant setting tied to the luncheon theme.
• The Mercantile LibraryminorOthersVenue for the Spread the Word – The Mercantile Library event (Oct 17, 2025; 414 Walnut St #1100, Cincinnati, OH 45202). Featured speakers Jenny Berg and City Link leadership discussing City Link's recent Impact 100 grant.
• Cincinnati Symphony OrchestramoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-performer and community partner with MYCincinnati (Impact 100 grant recipient). MYCincinnati students performed side-by-side with the CSO in 2017 (Shostakovich 8th Quartet at Music Hall), and CSO is listed as a 10-community-partner of MYCincinnati. Partnership amplifies Impact 100's grant-funded outcomes.
• GE Aerospace (Evendale)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerHosted TechOlympics 2026 for INTERalliance (an Impact 100 Extend Your Impact recipient). Mentors from GE Aerospace engaged directly with students; the EXec described connecting a Black Boys in Tech student with GE leaders as a transformative moment.
• Procter & GamblemoderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-developed INTERalliance's JumpStart eight-week pre-internship program, building skills in cybersecurity, digital marketing, product development, and professional communication. P&G is referenced as an Impact 100-recognized sponsor of INTERalliance programming.
• Kroger, Fifth Third, TQL, University of CincinnatiminorGTM or Marketing PartnerListed as TechOlympics 2026 industry and education partners; participated as judges, mentors, and expo leaders engaging with ~400 student participants.
• Philanthropy Ohio (Meghan Cummings)moderateStrategic or Co-development PartnerThought-leadership partner; Meghan Cummings (President & CEO) was a featured panelist at Impact 100's May 4, 2026 'Philanthropy — Past, Present & Possibility' Education Event. Highlighted Ohio's $1.7T wealth-transfer opportunity and trust-based philanthropy.
• blankspace philanthropic consulting (Clare Blankemeyer)moderateImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerClare Blankemeyer (Principal) spoke at the May 4, 2026 Education Event, sharing research on collective-giving diversity growth (7,000%+ since 2005) and redefining 'what counts as giving'.
• Trust for Learning (Tiarra Owens)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerTiarra Owens (Senior Director of Philanthropic Partnerships) was a featured panelist at the May 4, 2026 Education Event, contributing a 'Big We' / collective-action framing to the discussion.
• Kroger, UDF, Cincinnati Reds, FC CincinnatiminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood donors to Last Mile Food Rescue (an Impact 100 grant recipient). Impact 100's $100K grant indirectly strengthens this donor ecosystem by funding LMFR's refrigerated van expansion.
• Russell Winters (guest speaker, Tender Mercies)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerFeatured guest speaker at the Spread the Word – Loveland/Symmes Township event (June 10, 2026), sharing how an Impact 100 grant helped transform Tender Mercies — one of Impact 100's very first grant recipients.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Women's Funding Network: The largest network of women's foundations and funds globally, with 100+ members. Comparable at the category level (women's philanthropic infrastructure) and a relevant peer for benchmarking movement-wide trends referenced in Impact 100's Education Event programming.
• Greater Cincinnati Foundation: The largest community foundation in the Cincinnati region and a frequent co-investor / collaborator on local grantees. A broad incumbent in the same local philanthropic market; competes indirectly for donor attention and grantmaking visibility, though it operates an endowed, multi-fund model rather than a member-driven one.

Emerging players

• Asian Women's Giving Circle: A women-led collective-giving circle based in New York that pools smaller contributions from Asian-American women donors. Comparable in collective-giving mechanic and women-led structure, though smaller in scale and identity-specific in mission.

Others

• Every Mother Counts: A nonprofit dedicated to maternal health that combines grassroots fundraising, advocacy, and grantmaking — adjacent to Impact 100's maternal-recovery grantees (e.g., First Step Home, CityLink EMA). Useful as a thematic peer for understanding the broader maternal-health philanthropy ecosystem Impact 100 funds into.

Regional players

• Impact 100 Sonoma: Independent Impact 100 chapter serving Sonoma County, California. Same model, same grant ceiling, but in a different regional market; useful as a comparable for understanding how the model performs in geographies with different demographic and economic profiles.

Direct peers

• Washington Women's Foundation: A large, established women's collective-giving organization in the DC region that pools member contributions into high-impact grants. Closely comparable in mission, model, and member-driven grantmaking to Impact 100 Cincinnati, though it operates outside the Impact 100 chapter system.
• The Women's Foundation of Colorado: Statewide women's foundation using pooled philanthropy to fund gender-equity and economic-security grants. Comparable in member-driven funding model and focus on women-led philanthropy, though it operates as an endowed foundation rather than a chapter.
• Impact 100 Traverse City: Independent Impact 100 chapter in northern Michigan. Same franchise, same $100K grant mechanic, and same women-led collective-giving structure, making it a tight functional comparable for benchmarking membership growth and grant impact.
• Impact 100 of Palm Beach County: Direct chapter peer under the Impact 100 umbrella; uses the same $1,000 × 100 women = $100,000 grant model in Southern Palm Beach County. Operates as an independently licensed chapter of the same franchise and is explicitly mentioned in the source data as comparable in geography and structure.
• Impact 100 Chicago: Direct peer operating the same Impact 100 collective-giving model in the Chicago metro. Same model mechanics (membership dues pooling into $100K grants, member voting, multi-stage grant review), and explicitly part of the 'nearly 80 chapters' footprint.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Impact100Cincinnati
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/impact-100-cincinnati
• Instagraminstagram.com/impact100cincinnati

Compliance1 record

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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M&A

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