· Private foundation
Agt August a Rendigs Jr and Helen Rendigs Fdn
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k18 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $303k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $25,000 |
| STEPPING STONES INC | $25,000 |
| FOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI | $25,000 |
| MANIFEST CREATIVE RESEARCH GALLERY | $20,000 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $17,500 |
| OHIO VALLEY VOICES INC | $15,000 |
| CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $15,000 |
| ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI | $15,000 |
| PROKIDS | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- SSSTEPPING STONES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +16%
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +156%
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- RSROCK STEADY BOXINGone grant, 2020 · $5k
- MAMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OFone grant, 2020 · $5k
- GCGREATER CINCI ARTS & EDUC CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…
Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Fotofocus Cincinnati. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 59 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 CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds FOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Know Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Melanoma Know More ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Soccer Club Ltd ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MADEIRA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Sled Hockey ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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 · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation
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 Agt August a Rendigs Jr and Helen Rendigs Fdn 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.
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.
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