· Private foundation
David N and Ann Early Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI & HAMILTON COUNTY | $44,960 |
| LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE BATAVIA OHIO | $44,960 |
| THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FAMILY SCIENCES DEPT | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF CINCINNATI | $21,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| NOTRE DAME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY URBAN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| MAY WE HELP | $5,000 |
| BRIGHTEN CENTER | $5,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PROKIDS | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your 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.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TPThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $166k · revenue +28%
- TMTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $82k · revenue +30%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- BCBrighton Center Incone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +7%
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -9%
- HAHEARTT ANIMAL REFUGEone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -1%
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.
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…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Humane Society for Hamilton County (HSHC) is saving lives, educating communities and completing families by providing a compassionate and healthy environment for the homeless animals of Hamilton County, Indiana, until they can be placed…
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.
Our mission is to serve the people and animals of Central Ohio by providing safe, temporary shelter and care for abandoned or otherwise homeless cats and dogs, and to reduce pet overpopulation by means of spay and neuter, education, and…
To be a resource as a no-kill pet rescue service
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
To rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals in crisis, ensure healthy pets through education, advocacy, and affordable services, and inspire a community where the animal-human bond is celebrated and nurtured.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
To save the lives of homeless, sick and injured cats and to work with our community to provide feline expertise and quality programs and services for people and cats.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Catholic Urban Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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 The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Ohio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds HEARTT ANIMAL REFUGE ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · American Modern Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr 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 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.
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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