· Community foundation
Cambridge Charitable Foundation
To promote philanthropy broadly throughout the greater cincinnati, ohio region while working to build and preserve permanent endowment funds for the support of arts and culture, community progress, education, the environment, health and human services.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $138k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $714k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+7 grants · $7.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESIVTA OF CINCINNATI | $2,493,700 |
| OHR TORAH CINCINNATI | $2,090,160 |
| CINCINNATI COMMUNITY KOLLEL | $1,162,668 |
| KNESETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $787,505 |
| AGUDATH ACHIM OF CINCINNATI | $499,900 |
| CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL | $323,870 |
| CAMP ASHREINU OF CINCINNATI | $309,827 |
| NER ISRAEL RABBINICAL COLLEGE | $144,215 |
| CONGREGATION ZICHRON ELIEZER | $127,450 |
| LAWRENCE SCHOOL | $126,000 |
| AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA | $118,000 |
| THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $100,000 |
| CONGREGATION YESHIVA YAD MOSHE | $100,000 |
| WOLFTRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $100,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIV FDN-COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $80,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
119 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 9 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +44%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS6× · 2017–2024 · $580k · revenue +115%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES8× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- NLNER L HOREINU INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +45%
- CACONGREGATION AND YESHIVA BETH HILLELone grant, 2020 · $72k
- BMBETH MEDRASH GOVOHA OF LAKEWOOD INCone grant, 2019 · $28k · revenue +12%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To further jewish education in israel
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
To provide support to jewish religious education in israel and around the world, and provide financial assistance to and on behalf of yeshivah beth israel tifereth menachem.
Religious School
An institution for higher learning and study of talmudic law for post high school students, and students returning from their studies in israel, where they can further their education.
To promote the furtherance of jewish religious and rabbinic education on a college and graduate level in israel and to increase the dissemination of scholarly research works in the fields of torah, talmud and halacha.
To maintain a school for hebrew religious and secular education
Establishment & conduct of religious school in the tradition of the Orthodox Jewish faith.
Furtherance of jewish education
Keren hayeshivot trust supports religious institutions of higher education in the united states and israel to raise the level of torah and halachic observance in the sephardic orthodox jewish community.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
How this is measured
126 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 126 of the 183 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds AGUDATH ISRAEL OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Camp Ashreinu ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA DMIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ANCHOR FUND ↗
- Who funds TORAH COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC ↗
- Who funds Hillel Foundation at Miami University ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NAHAL HAREDI ↗
- Who funds Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Ojc Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cincinnati · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Center for Jewish Education Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cambridge Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cambridge Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yeshivat Yagdil Torah Inc: 9% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
- Push Movement: 8% of income from government
- Meoros Bais Yaakov Inc: 2% of income from government
- Jewels School Inc: 2% of income from government
- Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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