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· Private foundation

Bailey Lamson Family Fdtn

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$239k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Arts & Culture$232kEnvironment$107kEducation$23kFood & Nutrition$20kCrime & Legal$18kRecreation & Sports$15kAnimals$10kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $122k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
$5,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT ONEAL MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER$42,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP$20,000
CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY$15,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY INC$10,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSER$10,000
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
PRESERVE OLD MISSION PENINSULA$10,000
NEW SCHOOL$8,000
SCHOOL OF CREATIVE AND PERFORMING$8,000
CENTER OF UNIFICATION OF SCIENCE$5,000
HILLSIDE TRUST$5,000
JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION$5,000
CINCINNATI BALLET COMPANY INC$5,000
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$5,000
CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $5k → 16%OCEAN CLEANUP NORTH PACIFIC FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%THE KIAWAH ISLAND NATURAL HABITAT: $5k → 12%GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSER: $10k → 7%PRESERVE OLD MISSION PENINSULA: $10k → 10%CENTER OF UNIFICATION OF SCIENCE: $5k → 11%JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%PEOPLE AND POLLINATORS ACTION NETWORK: $5k → 12%JOY OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDA: $5k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY INC: $10k → 15%CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $5k → 16%NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION: $5k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP: $20k → 17%THE KIAWAH ISLAND NATURAL HABITAT: $5k → 12%GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSER: $10k → 7%JOY OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%NATURE CONSERVANCY INC: $5k → 15%CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $5k → 16%ACTION AGAINST HUNGER USA: $5k → 17%ROBERT ONEAL MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $42k → 16%ROBERT ONEAL MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER: $30k → 16%ARTWORKS: $13k → 16%LA SOUPE INC: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5k → 16%ARTWORKS: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $5k → 16%LA SOUPE INC: $5k → 16%HILLSIDE TRUST: $5k → 16%HILLSIDE TRUST: $5k → 16%NEW SCHOOL: $15k → 16%NEW SCHOOL: $8k → 16%CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $5k → 16%INDIAN HILL EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN: $10k → 16%FREESTORE-FOODBANK INC: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI PARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI PARK FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%THE ART LEAGUE OF CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY: $15k → 16%TAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $15k → 16%CINCINNATI BALLET COMPANY INC: $15k → 16%TAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 16%THE SPCA FUND (PRIMARY DANCE): $8k → 16%SCHOOL OF CREATIVE AND PERFORMING: $8k → 16%CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY: $7k → 16%CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI BALLET COMPANY INC: $5k → 16%PROKIDS: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MI
NY
MA
OH
RI
CO
MD
SC
AL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$355k · 21 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
10

Total granted

$355k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+17%

Still filing today

90%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • TN
    THE NEW SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +12%
  • GT
    GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +203%
  • CM
    CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • IH
    INDIAN HILL EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • TS
    THE SPCA FUND (PRIMARY DANCE)
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +18%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

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

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
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
4
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati

Ensemble theatre of cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic over-the- rhine, dedicated to engaging, enriching and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premier productions, creating and…

Arts & Culture
9
Art Academy of Cincinnati

Our mission is to operate, maintain, and oversee an independent college of art and design.

Education
10
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
11
The Dayton Art Institute

The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.

Arts & Culture
12
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Prospect House 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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%16%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr21%16%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr12%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%36%5–10yr21%6%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr12%26%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
3,143/27,992

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
12/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Robert Oneal Multicultural Arts Center — $72,000 · Arts & CultureRobert Oneal Multicultural Arts CenterTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTCINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY — $21,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETYThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Company IncART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $17,500 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUNITIES INCThe Contemporary Arts Center — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $9,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $12,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CL…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYINDIAN HILL EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERIAN — $10,000 · OtherINDIAN HILL EPISCOPAL PRESBYTERI…THE KIAWAH ISLAND NATURAL HABITAT — $10,000 · OtherTHE KIAWAH ISLAND NATURAL HABITA…SCHOOL OF CREATIVE AND PERFORMING — $8,000 · OtherSCHOOL OF CREATIVE AND PERFORMIN…THE SPCA FUND (PRIMARY DANCE) — $8,000 · OtherTHE SPCA FUND (PRIMARY DANCE)Individual grant recipient — $6,000 · OtherNATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION — $5,000 · OtherCENTER OF UNIFICATION OF SCIENCE — $5,000 · OtherJOY OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDA — $5,000 · OtherProKids — $7,500 · OtherProKidsACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $5,000 · OtherJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE — $5,000 · Other+4 more — $11,000 · Other+4 moreGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $20,000 · EnvironmentGRAND TRAVERS…PRESERVE OLD MISSION PENINSULA — $10,000 · EnvironmentPRESERVE OLD …THE HILLSIDE TRUST — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE HILLSIDE …PEOPLE AND POLLINATORS ACTION NETWORK — $9,000 · EnvironmentPEOPLE AND PO…Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc — $5,000 · EnvironmentJoy Outdoor E…THORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $2,500 · EnvironmentTHE NEW SCHOOL INC — $23,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $9,000 · EducationLA SOUPE INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $10,000 · AnimalsCincinnati Parks Foundation — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$207,000Other$135,500Environment$56,500Education$32,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Animals$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRobert Oneal Multicultural Arts Center — $72,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW SCHOOL INC — $23,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY — $21,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVE OLD MISSION PENINSULA — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILLSIDE TRUST — $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLA SOUPE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE AND POLLINATORS ACTION NETWORK — $9,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProKids — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART LEAGUE OF CINCINNATI — $5,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetTHORNE ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKnow Theatre of Cincinnati — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetProspect House Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Louise Taft Semple Fo…Carol Ann and Ralph V…The Greater Cincinnat…The Warrington Founda…The Thomas J Emery Me…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Frances R Luther …Earthward Bound Found…The Wohlgemuth Hersch…Sutphin Family Founda…Millstone FundCharles H Dater Found…
Louise Taft Semple FoundationOH26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Warrington Foundation Co Fifth Third · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Earthward Bound Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc

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 Bailey Lamson Family Fdtn 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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