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American Modern Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Clermont Chamber of Commerce Founda | $10,000 |
| Cincinnati Cares | $6,000 |
| The Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati | $3,500 |
| Down Syndrome Association of Greate | $3,021 |
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 (FY20–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 63 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CCCLERMONT COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +10%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +23%
- CFChild Focus5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- UWUnited Wayone grant, 2020 · $11k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2023 · $11k
- CMCINCINNATI MUSIC ACCELERATORone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 fight animal cruelty, help animals in need and advocate for their well-being.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
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…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Good Charities and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Tri-State. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
138 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. 138 of the 222 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CLERMONT COUNTY CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Child Focus ↗
- Who funds Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Clermont Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CLERMONT KIDS ↗
- Who funds INSPIRING PURPOSE DAY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVERD GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds NEST COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RED WOLF SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE BACK CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds The HealthSource Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATE ↗
- Who funds GIVE LIKE A MOTHER ↗
- Who funds VARNER FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
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 · Duke Energy Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial
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 American Modern Foundation 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.
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