· Private foundation
Board of Trustees of Woodward High School
To provide funds for the educational benefit of needy children in the City of Cincinnati.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Assistance League of Greater Cinti | $55,000 |
| Activities Beyond the Classroom | $20,000 |
| UC Gen1 Theme House UC Fdn | $10,000 |
| Elementz | $8,000 |
| Adventure Crew | $7,500 |
| Peaslee Neighborhood Center | $7,500 |
| UpSpring | $6,000 |
| iSPACE | $5,000 |
| Cincinnati Urban Promise | $5,000 |
| BiOkoto Drum and Dance Theater | $5,000 |
| Clifton Cultural Arts Center | $5,000 |
| Cincinnati Shakespeare Company | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,800 |
| Cincinnati Public Schools | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- ALASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI9× · 2017–2025 · $379k · revenue +30%
- ABActivities Beyond the Classroom3× · 2021–2025 · $54k · revenue +81%
- IIISPACE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- IFIMANI FAMILY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +39%
- CYCincinnati Youth Collaborativegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +35%
- BCBreakthru Cincinnatione grant, 2021 · $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.
Educational opportunities in the performing arts and fine arts through private and group lessons. Among others, classes include acting, dance, voice, piano, and guitar. Cincinnati Academy of Performing Arts has 465 students in its classes…
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.…
Youth-led Cultivators
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…
At School Board School, we are activating a diverse coalition of education advocates and aspiring school board members to create significant and sustainable change in their school system. We prepare them with the skills, mindsets,…
Nurture friendships and exchange ideas
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
The Cincinnati Squash Academy is a sports and education nonprofit that seeks to create a transformative impact on a select group of motivated, underserved youth in the community. Squash is the hook, yet education is the heart of the…
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
Hope Ignites Cincinnati nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Activities Beyond the Classroom and the most unlike its peers is Girls Health Period. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 23 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 ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Activities Beyond the Classroom ↗
- Who funds ISPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds Elementz ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE CREW ↗
- Who funds IMANI FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Wordplay Cincy ↗
- Who funds Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds UPSPRING ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre ↗
- Who funds GIRLS HEALTH PERIOD ↗
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: Andrew Jergens Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · 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 Board of Trustees of Woodward High School 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Board of Trustees of Woodward High School?
Find your warmest path to Board of Trustees of Woodward High School 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.