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Charles Scott Riley III Foundation at a glance

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Charles Scott Riley III Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$131k
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$499kEducation$126kHealth$90kAnimals$41kEnvironment$36kYouth Development$28kHuman Services$23kCrime & Legal$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$37,000
CINCINNATI BALLET$12,000
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$5,000
CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
NKU FOUNDATION -CHASE LAW SCHOOL$5,000
PYRAMID HILL SCULPTURE PARK$5,000
WCET$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FAITH FREEDOM LIFE$4,500
KNOW THEATRE$2,500
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$2,500
CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND$2,500
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$2,500
CITY GOSPEL MISSION$2,500
CINCINNATI OPERA$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY & CHILDRENS PLACE: $1k → 15%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $2k → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $2k → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $1k → 12%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 16%LADD INC: $3k → 16%LADD INC: $2k → 16%LADD INC: $1k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $2k → 16%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $1k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $2k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $2k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $2k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $2k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $1k → 16%NORTH FAIRMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 16%NORTH FAIRMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 16%NORTH FAIRMONT COMMUNITY CENTER: $1k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $1k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $1k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOC FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $2k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$947k · 60 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
29

Total granted

$947k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+25%

Still filing today

70%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TM
    TAFT MUSEUM OF ART
    8× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +48%
  • SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +104%
  • OV
    OHIO VALLEY VOICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $60k
  • TM
    TAFT MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CO
    CINCINNATI OPERS
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
2
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

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.…

—
5
Art Opportunities Inc

To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.

Arts & Culture
6
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.

Recreation & Sports
7
Know Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

—
9
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
10
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission

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…

—
11
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
12
Cincinnati Arts Association

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; 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.
04the grantee network

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/66
Grantees still filing
38/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $50,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCINCINNATI ZOO: $40,000 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOOIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNKU FOUNDATION -CHASE LAW SCHOOL: $39,000 · OtherNKU FOUNDATION -CHASE LAW SCHOOLCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $18,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S THEATRE: $16,500 · Other+45 more: $199,000 · Other+45 moreTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $162,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $73,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $42,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTERThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $27,500 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc+17 more: $74,500 · Arts & Culture+17 moreSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $43,000 · EducationOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $34,500 · Education+3 more: $3,500 · EducationCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $24,500 · Human ServicesINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $14,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $5,500 · Human ServicesFOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,500 · Human Services+5 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesCancer Family Care Inc: $14,000 · HealthMAY WE HELP INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthMelanoma Know More: $5,500 · HealthRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $3,500 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $31,500 · EnvironmentOhio River Foundation: $4,500 · EnvironmentFaith Freedom Life: $7,000 · Crime & LegalPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $6,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$463,000Arts & Culture$379,500Education$81,000Human Services$68,500Health$44,000Environment$36,000Crime & Legal$13,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $162,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $73,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $43,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $42,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $34,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $31,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $24,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $14,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $14,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAY WE HELP INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Soccer Club Ltd: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetProKids: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO: $6,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCISE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMelanoma Know More: $5,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVisionaries and Voices: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOhio River Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House: $4,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFITTON CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHEALTHY BEGINNINGS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUPSPRING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTURE CREW: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 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 Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Soccer Club Ltd ↗
  • Who funds ProKids ↗
  • Who funds Faith Freedom Life ↗
  • Who funds Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP OF OHIO ↗
  • Who funds CISE ↗
  • Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗

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.

Robert a & Marian K K…The Greater Cincinnat…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Marge & Charles J Sch…The Thomas J Emery Me…John a Schroth Family…Josephine S Russell C…Johnson Charitable Gi…Louise Taft Semple Fo…
Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable TrustOH87× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Charles Scott Riley III Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Scott Riley III Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Charles Scott Riley III Foundation 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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