· Private foundation
Ab Cord Charitable Foundation Tr Nect 001576
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE MENNINGER CLINIC | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT | $5,000 |
| THE CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| MARY JO CROPPER FAMILY CENTER | $4,000 |
| UC HEALTH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $3,000 |
| WOMEN'S ART CLUB OF CINCINNATI | $2,535 |
| UNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY | $2,500 |
| CITY GOSPEL MISSION | $2,500 |
| HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +30%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +14%- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- MHMental Health America of Greater Houston Incone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -29%
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -6%- ESEaster Seals Tristateone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Angels Watch Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 63 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY OHIO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ART CLUB ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds ANGELS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation · John J & Mary R Schiff Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Betagole Family Foundation Inc % Robert Betagole
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ab Cord Charitable Foundation Tr Nect 001576 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.