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Ab Cord Charitable Foundation Tr Nect

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$113kHealth$53kHuman Services$50kArts & Culture$48kAnimals$43kFood & Nutrition$12kReligion$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE$25,000
THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON$7,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$6,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$6,000
MENNINGER CLINIC$6,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$5,000
ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI$5,000
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER$5,000
HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED$5,000
Nami Greater Houston$5,000
CINCINNATI ART CLUB$5,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER$5,000
ANGELS WATCH$4,000
Arts Wave$3,000
GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $42k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $7k → 14%RECORDING FOR THE BLIND & DYSLEXIC: $1k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $6k → 14%RECORDING FOR THE BLIND & DYSLEXIC: $1k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $5k → 14%RECORDING FOR THE BLIND & DYSLEXIC: $1k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $5k → 14%RECORDING FOR THE BLIND & DYSLEXIC: $1k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$439k · 40 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
6

Total granted

$439k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-6%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $85k · revenue +30%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +27%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • MH
    Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -29%
  • ES
    Easter Seals Tristate
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -23%
  • UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -6%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Union Hospital Inc

We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.

Health
4
Mercy Health

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…

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5
Highmark Health

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.

Health
6
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
7
The Cleveland Institute of Art

The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…

Education
8
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
9
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
10
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
11
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $85,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTESTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS F…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,378 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $10,500 · EducationART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATITHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationMARY JO CROPPER FAMILY CENTER: $19,000 · OtherMARY JO CROPPER FAMILY CENTERHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $13,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATE…CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $10,100 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATE…UNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY OHIO: $9,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY OHIOWOMANS ART CLUB OF CINCINNATI: $9,035 · OtherWOMANS ART CLUB OF CINCINNATIOTTERBEIN DEPT OF DEVELOPMENT: $9,000 · OtherOTTERBEIN DEPT OF DEVELOPMENTMUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY & SCIENCE: $7,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,240 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $6,000 · Other4C FOR CHILDREN: $5,200 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER: $5,000 · OtherSt Rita School For The Deaf: $4,750 · OtherNAMI GREATER HOUSTON: $5,000 · Other+10 more: $28,500 · Other+10 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI …CINCINNATI ART CLUB: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI …Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $8,500 · Arts & CultureCincinnati …The Contemporary Arts Center: $8,400 · Arts & CultureThe Contemp…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM …Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $4,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati …CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,700 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $28,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WAR…GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYE…GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS …Learning Ally Inc: $4,750 · Human ServicesLearning Al…THE MENNINGER CLINIC: $21,750 · HealthTHE MENNIN…UC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · HealthUC HEALTH …American Heart Association Inc: $4,000 · HealthAmerican H…Mental Health America of Greater Houston Inc: $3,000 · HealthMental Hea…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN C…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 · HealthZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $19,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL…THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI: $8,000 · AnimalsTHE HAMILT…HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO: $7,600 · AnimalsHUMANE ASS…ANGELS WATCH INC: $7,000 · AnimalsANGELS WAT…FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $12,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$137,878Other$137,325Arts & Culture$49,600Human Services$47,750Health$44,750Animals$41,600Food & Nutrition$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $85,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MENNINGER CLINIC: $21,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $15,378 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUC HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $10,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY OHIO: $9,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI ART CLUB: $9,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $8,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO: $7,600 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetANGELS WATCH INC: $7,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health America of Greater Houston Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds UC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WARREN COUNTY OHIO ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI ART CLUB ↗
  • Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI GREATER HOUSTON ↗
  • Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
  • Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ab Cord Charitable Foundation Tr Nect funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ab Cord Charitable Foundation Tr Nect. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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