· Private foundation
Charles and Barbara Dewey Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $56,445 |
| DAZZLE AFRICA | $56,445 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $35,000 |
| DAZZLE AFRICA | $11,000 |
| GREEN BERET FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $2,500 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $2,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,500 |
| SYCAMORE THEATRE | $2,000 |
| ELEPHANT SANCTUARY | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| U CAN NON PROFIT PET CLINIC | $1,500 |
| OWC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,500 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $1,500 |
| HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DADAZZLE AFRICA3× · 2023–2025 · $78k · revenue +25%
- GBGREEN BERET FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +37%
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CBCINCINNATI & BOTANICAL GARDENone grant, 2021 · $25k
- LCLINDER CENTER OF HOPEone grant, 2024 · $500
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250 · revenue +95%
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.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
Cleveland zoological society is the nonprofit partner of cleveland metroparks zoo, committed to raising awareness of the zoo as a community priority; securing private donations; and running a membership program that provides operating and…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…
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…
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dazzle Africa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 31 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 ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds DAZZLE AFRICA ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD TRAILS ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds CancerFree KIDS ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WITHROW ALUMNI INC ↗
- Who funds PAY IT FORWARD CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Charles and Barbara Dewey Family 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.
- Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% 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.