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Cheviot Charitable 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.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$397kHealth$67kPublic Benefit$35kArts & Culture$32kHuman Services$29kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$19kYouth Development$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SETON HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL$5,500
BRIGHTER DAY 4 KIDS FUND (BDK FUND)$4,500
TAYLOR HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
OAK HILLS HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
COLERAIN HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
HARRISON HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
CHEVIOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,000
ELDER HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
MERCY MCAULEY HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
WESTERN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL$4,000
ANDERSON FERRY FOOD PANTRY - DELHI$3,500
OAK HILLS ALUMNI & EDUCATION$3,000
CANCER FAMILY CARE$2,500
THE CHILDRENS HEART FOUNDATION$2,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MOM'S HOPE: $1k → 6%KIDSCOPS & FIREFIGHTERS: $1k → 16%THE SHIELD: $2k → 16%THE SHIELD: $1k → 16%BRIGHTER DAY 4 KIDS FUND (BDK FUND): $6k → 16%BRIGHTER DAY 4 KIDS FUND (BDK FUND): $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$610k · 38 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
16

Total granted

$610k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+14%

Still filing today

24%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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

  • WI
    WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +40%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED
    2× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +33%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • WH
    WESTERN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FN
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • AA
    ALS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • OW
    ONE WAY FARM
    one grant, 2017 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Hope for Cleveland's Children
2
Free Throws for Kids

Free throws for kids provides complimentary gift bags to families that have a child required to stay overnight at the cincinnati children's hospital. the gift bag contains sundry items and gift cards for fuel and meals to help the families…

Human Services
3
Ryan's Case for Smiles

Ryan's case for smiles helps with the stress and emotional impact of illness in the here and now. our whimsical pillowcases give children an emotional boost, while our copingspace and justsibs resources and tools help families better…

Human Services
4
Caring for Kids Inc

Caring for kids, inc. (cfk) is a private, non-profit, full-service adoption and foster care agency operating since 1995. cfk specializes in diverse and inclusive birth parent, foster care, adoption and behavioral health services. our…

Human Services
5
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

6
Helping Ohio Heroes

Providing veteran's children with scholarships.

7
Trihealth Physician Institute

Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.

Health
8
Kinder Key

Support Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.

9
Nationwide Childrens Hospital Group Return

Nationwide children's hospital's mission is committed to best outcomes and health equity for all children, ensuring every child has access to the best care regardless of their ability to pay. upon this fundamental belief, nch is committed…

10
Neighborhood Health Care Inc

Neighborhood health care, inc. is a network of community health centers committed to delivering high-quality, affordable primary, preventive, and supplemental healthcare. since 1980, nhc has been serving families on the west side of…

Health
11
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
12
Kansas City Hospice Inc

To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Tri-State. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySchool District Scholarship…Family & Youth Support Serv…At-Risk Youth Residential C…Police Fire Community Suppo…Christian Evangelical Minis…Senior and Disability Resid…Veterans & Fraternal Organi…Neighborhood Redevelopment …Hospital Health Systems
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%9%<5yr14%22%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr15%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr17%3%20–35yr15%17%35–55yr15%59%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/25
the rest of the field
13%
720/5,478

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.

04the grantee network

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 62 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL — $46,000 · OtherLASALLE HIGH SCHOOLSETON HIGH SCHOOL — $44,500 · OtherSETON HIGH SCHOOLELDER HIGH SCHOOL — $36,800 · OtherELDER HIGH SCHOOLHARRISON HIGH SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherHARRISON HIGH SCHOOLCITY OF CHEVIOT OH — $35,000 · OtherCITY OF CHEVIOT OHTAYLOR HIGH SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherTAYLOR HIGH SCHOOLOAK HILLS HIGH SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherOAK HILLS HIGH SCHOOLCOLERAIN HIGH SCHOOL — $35,000 · OtherCOLERAIN HIGH SCHOOLWESTERN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL — $32,000 · OtherMERCY MCAULEY HIGH SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $22,000 · OtherCOVEDALE YOUNG PEOPLE'S THEATRE — $21,000 · Other+37 more — $207,480 · Other+37 moreTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $18,000 · HealthCancer Family Care Inc — $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,000 · HealthMadis House Inc — $1,500 · HealthTHE BDK FUND — $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE SHIELD INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesKids Cops N Firefighters Inc — $1,000 · Human ServicesMOMSHOPE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $2,120 · Food & NutritionHONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATE — $1,800 · Arts & CultureMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $1,500 · InternationalBIRTHDAY WITH A BADGE — $1,000 · Community ImprovementFOREVER 49 FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Education
Other$614,780Health$27,500Human Services$15,500Food & Nutrition$2,120Arts & Culture$1,800International$1,500Community Improvement$1,000Education$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS — $15,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED — $10,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BDK FUND — $10,500 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION GIVE BACK — $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD — $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHIELD INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $2,120 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPREGNANCY CENTER WEST — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT TRI-STATE — $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadis House Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHDAY WITH A BADGE — $1,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetKids Cops N Firefighters Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOREVER 49 FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget
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 DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED
  • Who funds THE BDK FUND
  • Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc
  • Who funds OPERATION GIVE BACK
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds THE SHIELD 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.

Johnson Charitable Gift FundOH31.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · George J Hubert Jr Foundation Inc · Stella M Buerger Charitable Trust · The Maas Family Foundation · Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health 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 Cheviot Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cheviot Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cheviot Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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