· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| NOTRE DAME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY URBAN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF CATHOLIC URBAN EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| MAY WE HELP | $5,000 |
| BRIGHTEN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PROKIDS | $4,000 |
| OHIO ALLEYCAT RESOURCENEUTER CLINIC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of David N and Ann Early Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 69% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David N and Ann Early Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David N and Ann Early Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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