· Private foundation
Charles Scott Riley III Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k33 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $37,000 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $12,000 |
| WCET | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $5,000 |
| NKU FOUNDATION -CHASE LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK | $5,000 |
| FAITH FREEDOM LIFE | $4,500 |
| CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND | $2,500 |
| OHIO VALLEY VOICES | $2,500 |
| CINCINNATI STREET SOCCER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| KNOW THEATRE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
60 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 11 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TMTAFT MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +48%
SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +104%- OVOHIO VALLEY VOICES9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $60k
- TMTAFT MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $10k
- COCINCINNATI OPERSone grant, 2020 · $8k
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 Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
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…
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.
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.…
To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
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…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…
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 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Faith Freedom Life. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 100 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 TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Soccer Club Ltd ↗
- Who funds Faith Freedom Life ↗
- Who funds Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds Melanoma Know More ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
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: Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Louise Taft Semple 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 Scott Riley III 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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