· Private foundation
Andrew Jergens Foundation
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 53 grants below total $525,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $623,077 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $97,777 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $452k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elementz | $20,000 |
| Children's Law Center | $18,000 |
| Lighthouse Youth and Family Services | $16,000 |
| Diocesan Catholic Children's Home dba DCCH Center for Children and Families | $15,000 |
| UpSpring | $15,000 |
| Children's Home of Northern Kentucky | $15,000 |
| Welcome House of Northern Kentucky | $15,000 |
| Found House Interfaith Housing | $15,000 |
| Redwood School & Rehabilitation Center, Inc., DBA Easterseals Redwood | $15,000 |
| Bi-Okoto Cultural Center | $15,000 |
| Immigrant and Refugee Law Center | $15,000 |
| Literacy Network of Greater Cincinnati dba Queen City Book Bank | $13,000 |
| Cincinnati Nature Center | $12,000 |
| CityLink Center | $12,000 |
| Society of the Transfiguration | $11,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
122 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 95 since wound down; 26 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $244k 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
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC4× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +45%
- MCMindPeace Cincinnati4× · 2018–2023 · $63k · revenue +193%
- YOYWCA of Greater Cincinnati7× · 2018–2024 · $59k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- COCASA OF KENTON COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $22k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CCCENTRAL CLINIC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
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.…
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
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…
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and the most unlike its peers is Tikkun Farm Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
172 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. 172 of the 252 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 THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MindPeace Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds ISPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Elementz ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Glad House Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER CINCINN ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds Imago ↗
- Who funds Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME 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: Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Millstone Fund · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica
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 Andrew Jergens 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.
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% 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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