Queen City Impact (QCI) is a family advising firm that specializes in philanthropic stewardship and family governance facilitation.
We provide discernment-based advisory services, prioritizing listening, deep discovery, and asking questions without looking for a quick solution.
Our relationship-based approach offers a new model for families to achieve their financial goals, steward family wealth and values through transitions, and deliver meaningful change to their passions.
Kit Brunner, CAP®
Founder, CEO
Kit founded QCI in September 2023 with a belief that philanthropy is most impactful when it is personalized, relationship-driven, and family-based. That belief soon became a vision that culminated in a new approach to family advising that uses charitable planning, family governance, and legacy building tools and services.
QCI’s approach to family advising is to facilitate a deeper appreciation and understanding of the different types of family wealth and the opportunities they bring with the client in collaboration with other professional advisors.
Before QCI, Kit spent over a decade working with non-profit organizations of all sizes in Denver, Washington, D.C., Cincinnati, as well as internationally. His most transformative experience working in that sector was while serving as the Development Manager at Bethany House Services (BHS), the largest family homelessness agency in Hamilton County. Kit oversaw a donor portfolio of over 70 high-net worth individuals and foundations as well as overseeing all government funding for the Emergency Shelter Program, in total responsible for over 2 million in funding annually. Additionally, he managed external relations for Bethany House, representing BHS’ budgetary and policy interests with the City of Cincinnati, Hamilton County Human Services Chamber, Ohio Department of Development, the Greater Cincinnati Foundation, the United Way, & other government, public, & private entities.
Born and raised in Cincinnati, he holds a master’s degree in international human rights from the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies (2016) and a double B.A. in History and Anthropology from Centre College (2011). Kit is a certified Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy from the American College of Financial Services and certified 21/64 family facilitator.
Kit is a board member at UpSpring, the Ken Anderson Alliance, and the Council on Child Abuse, as well as a committee member at Talbert House’s Fatherhood Project.