How much did DAVID N AND ANN EARLY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of DAVID N AND ANN EARLY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

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2022

—

2023

childrens

2024

animal rescue

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $35k
$10k–50k9 grants · $206k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE BATAVIA OHIO$44,960
LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI & HAMILTON COUNTY$44,960
THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FAMILY SCIENCES DEPT$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CINCINNATI$21,000
CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN$10,000
NOTRE DAME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY URBAN EDUCATION$10,000
ALLIANCE OF CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCATION$10,000
MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES$10,000
MAY WE HELP$5,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH$5,000
CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$5,000
BRIGHTEN CENTER$5,000
PROKIDS$4,000
HEARTT ANIMAL RESCUE$3,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of DAVID N AND ANN EARLY FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

DAVID N AND ANN EARLY FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$805k · 21 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$805k

$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+39%

Still filing today

29%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationInternationalHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

TM
THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY
4× · 2021–2024 · $82k · revenue +9%
LF
LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE
2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +82%
M2
MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES
4× · 2021–2024 · $44k · revenue +28%

Funded once

AF
ALLIANCE FOR CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCATION
one grant, 2022 · $10k
BC
BRIGHTON CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +23%
CA
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM
one grant, 2022 · $7k

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.

Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue

The kentucky humane society is a champion for companion animals, through leadership, education and proactive solutions, we are creating more compassionate communities.

Animals

Columbus Cares for Cats

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Cincinnati Animal Care Humane Society

We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…

Animals

Animal Charity of Ohio Inc

The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.

Animals

United Coalition for Animals

Our mission is ending the euthanasia of cats and dogs in local shelters and keeping pets in their loving homes by providing professional and affordable spay/neuter and wellness services.

Animals

Pets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc

To provide affordable,high-quality veterinary care to allow individuals and families of limited means to enjoy benefits of healthy and responsible pet ownership. Anyone who wants to share a loving home with a pet should have access to…

Animals

United Way of Greater Cincinnati

The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.

Philanthropy

Butler County Humane Society

Animals

Animal Welfare Council of the Alleghenie

The Animal Welfare Council of Alleghenies (AWC) is composed of individuals of diverse interest who intersect at their concern for the health and welfare of animals. The AWC is a clearinghouse of information and ideas, promotes…

Animals

Michigan Animal Adoption

Animal adoptions; low cost spay/neutering in low income areas. animal care network (acn).

Animals

Alley Cat Advocates Inc

Alley cat advocates' mission is to provide for the humane treatment of unowned cats in our community by directing a trap-neuter-return program in the safest, most efficient, and most cost effective way possible

Animals

Save Ohio Pets

SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

12/12

Grantees still filing

12/12

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$598,454Education$92,000Animals$89,612International$44,400Health$18,000Civil Rights$4,000Housing & Shelter$2,000

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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Foundation · American Modern Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy

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 organisation DAVID N AND ANN EARLY 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +82% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 310818511 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to David N and Ann Early Foundation?

Find your warmest path to David N and Ann Early Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DAVID N AND ANN EARLY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to David N and Ann Early Foundation?

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DAVID N AND ANN EARLY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to David N and Ann Early Foundation?

More from the funding graph