· Private foundation
Building Healthy Lives Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k42 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $81,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $30,000 |
| HERMEDICINE | $15,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHRESTRA | $14,820 |
| CET | $10,200 |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $9,000 |
| HOSPICE OF CINCINNANTI | $5,500 |
| YWCA OF CINCINNATI | $5,240 |
| CENTRAL CLINIC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $5,180 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $5,000 |
| DE LA DANCE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| CIRCLE TAIL INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +39% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 15 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +64%
- HHERMEDICINE8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue ×16 · 55% of their budget
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +198%
Funded once
- CACINCINNSAIANS ACTIVE TO SUPPORT EDUCATIONone grant, 2019 · $10k
- CWCINCINNATI WOMAN'S CLUB PRESIDENT'S PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $5k
- RSREDWOOD SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To promote professional excellence, foster justice, serve our members and educate the public.
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.
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…
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
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…
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…
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…
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.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is The Butler Foundation. 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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 256 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 Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds HERMEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE TAIL INC ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds LA'S BEST ↗
- Who funds SAINTS PETER & PAUL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI 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 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Hcs Foundation · 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 Building Healthy Lives 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.
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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