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David & Rebecca Barron Fdn Tr Agy

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$308kYouth Development$238kHealth$233kHuman Services$7kArts & Culture$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kEducation$250Philanthropy$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,321
Median grant
2
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHELTERHOUSE VOLUNTEER GROUP AGENCY$100,321
SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $75k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $67k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $67k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $13k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $11k → 16%CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $500 → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$656k · 6 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$656k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+7%

Still filing today

83%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • LY
    LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
    5× · 2019–2023 · $232k · revenue +53%
  • SV
    Shelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $205k · revenue +61%
  • PH
    Prospect House Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue -19%

Funded once

  • CM
    CONNOR MORAN CHILDRENS CANCER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • MN
    Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • MV
    MOST VALUABLE KIDS CINCINNATI
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany House Services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
2
Illumination Health Home formerly the Illumination Foundation

Our vision is to break the cycle of homelessness. Our public/private partnership combines healthcare and mental health services with housing and social services to reduce the impacts of homelessness and reduce people's vulerability to…

Human Services
3
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
4
Humility House

Humility House extends the healing ministry of Jesus by improving the health of our communities with emphasis on people who are poor and underserved.

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5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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6
Bon Secours New York Health System Inc

Bon secours new york health system, inc. (bsnyhs) is the parent and central organization of an established integrated healthcare delivery system.

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7
Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation Inc

Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, Inc. (Sheen Housing) facilitates the provision of safe, decent, affordable housing for very low to moderate-income families, seniors and persons with disabilities in order to promote their…

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8
Bon Secours New York Health System Affiliated Group

The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good help to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.

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9
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
10
Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Inc

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House is dedicated to helping those in need who live, work, or go to school on Manhattan's East Side, primarily the Upper East Side, and to improving the quality of life for all individuals and families in its…

Human Services
11
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
12
Trinity House Apartments Inc

The organization is affiliated with Associated Catholic Charities, Inc. (ACC) whose mission is "Inspired by the Gospel mandates to love, serve and teach, Catholic Charities provides care and services to improve the lives of Marylanders in…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Youth Services; the most unlike its peers is Hathaway Brown School. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $232,301 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesProspect House Inc: $200,000 · HealthProspect House Inc+5 more: $10,500 · HealthShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $205,200 · Housing & ShelterShelterhouse Volunteer Group…+1 more: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTERHOUSE VOLUNTEER GROUP AGENCY: $100,321 · OtherSHELTERHOUSE VOLUNTEE…CONNOR MORAN CHILDRENS CANCER: $25,000 · OtherCONNOR MORAN CHILDREN…Individual grant recipient: $14,500 · OtherIndividual grant reci…+10 more: $16,550 · Other+10 moreThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $250 · Education
Human Services$232,801Health$210,500Housing & Shelter$206,200Other$156,371Arts & Culture$5,000Education$250

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 budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $232,301 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $205,200 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetProspect House Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Life Outreach Project Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRI COUNTY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBrighton Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMelanoma Know More: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Ruth J & Robert a Con…Spaulding FoundationSutphin Family Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Ed & Joann Hubert Fam…Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlap…Marge & Charles J Sch…John a Schroth Family…First Financial Found…Ohio Capital Impact C…United Way of Greater…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Spaulding Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · First Financial Foundation · Ohio Capital Impact Corporation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati

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 David & Rebecca Barron Fdn Tr Agy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Rebecca Barron Fdn Tr Agy. 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%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 David & Rebecca Barron Fdn Tr Agy 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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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