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Agt August a Rendigs Jr and Helen Rendigs Fdn at a glance

· Private foundation

Agt August a Rendigs Jr and Helen Rendigs Fdn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$493k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$521kEducation$283kHuman Services$190kHealth$179kCrime & Legal$113kEnvironment$88kAnimals$87kRecreation & Sports$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $303k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$50,000
CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN$50,000
NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY$40,000
STEPPING STONES INC$25,000
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ASSOCIATION$25,000
FOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI$25,000
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$25,000
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$20,000
MANIFEST CREATIVE RESEARCH GALLERY$20,000
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$17,500
CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND$15,000
OHIO VALLEY VOICES INC$15,000
ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI$15,000
PROKIDS$10,000
CINCINNATI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS$10,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOLLY HILL CHILDRENS HOME INC: $5k → 10%STEPPING STONES INC: $25k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $18k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $18k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $15k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $10k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $5k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $15k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $5k → 16%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.
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 42 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+19%

Still filing today

76%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • SS
    STEPPING STONES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $85k · revenue +16%
  • CN
    CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
    5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +156%
  • CS
    CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • GC
    GREATER CINCI ARTS & EDUC CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • RS
    ROCK STEADY BOXING
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • FF
    Faith Freedom Life
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

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

Arts & Culture
2
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
4
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Cincinnati Observatory Center

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.

Recreation & Sports
7
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
8
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

—
9
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

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.…

—
11
Cincinnati Arts Association

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $120,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $77,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRACINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $75,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTERTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATIONFOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFOTOFOCUS CINCINNATIKnow Theatre of Cincinnati: $22,500 · Arts & CultureManifest Creative Research Gallery: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $53,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITYRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $47,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE POOR: $32,500 · OtherVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE POORSt Rita School For The Deaf: $22,500 · OtherHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $22,500 · OtherPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF GREATER: $20,000 · OtherEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $17,500 · OtherCASTLETON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $17,500 · OtherProKids: $55,000 · OtherProKids+18 more: $145,000 · Other+18 moreSTEPPING STONES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STO…Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $50,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati A…BEECH ACRES: $25,000 · Human ServicesBEECH ACRES+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $65,000 · EducationOHIO VALLE…ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $42,500 · EducationART ACADEM…SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $18,000 · EducationSPRINGER S…ROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $17,500 · EducationROCK STEAD…CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $82,500 · EnvironmentGORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $85,000 · Animals+1 more: $2,000 · AnimalsCancer Family Care Inc: $20,000 · HealthBEECHWOOD HOME: $17,500 · HealthMelanoma Know More: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · HealthFERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $9,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$468,000Other$480,000Human Services$165,000Education$143,000Environment$97,500Animals$87,000Health$71,500

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 budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $82,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $77,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetProKids: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKnow Theatre of Cincinnati: $22,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $17,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBEECHWOOD HOME: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCK STEADY BOXING INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS: $15,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetMelanoma Know More: $15,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCincinnati Soccer Club Ltd: $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER MILFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $11,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetMADEIRA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $11,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetCincinnati Sled Hockey: $10,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetCINCINNATI ART CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER OF GREA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $9,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHolly Hill Children's Home Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JOSEPH HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE COUSE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistoric Southwest Ohio Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOhio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
  • 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 CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
  • Who funds FOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI ↗
  • 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 EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
  • Who funds ROCK STEADY BOXING INC ↗
  • 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 GREATER MILFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MADEIRA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Sled Hockey ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI ART CLUB ↗

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 Cincinnat…Robert a & Marian K K…The Thomas J Emery Me…Charles H Dater Found…J Frederick & Helen B…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Millstone FundThe Wohlgemuth Hersch…Johnson Charitable Gi…L & L Nippert Charita…Andrew Jergens Founda…Charles Scott Riley I…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH52.6× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Agt August a Rendigs Jr and Helen Rendigs Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Agt August a Rendigs Jr and Helen Rendigs Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Agt August a Rendigs Jr and Helen Rendigs Fdn through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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