· Private foundation
Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $214k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $191,420 |
| THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CINTI OH | $177,662 |
| ARTSWAVE | $157,493 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $139,843 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $59,221 |
| SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL INC | $59,221 |
| HISTORIC SOUTHWEST OHIO | $59,221 |
| PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI & | $59,221 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $59,221 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $58,881 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $58,128 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $55,340 |
| NATL TR FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $45,568 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION EDUCATIONA | $40,887 |
| CHURCH OF THE ADVENT | $39,159 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Arts7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +2%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI9× · 2017–2025 · $493k · revenue +41%
- SASHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $493k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CCETone grant, 2019 · $40k
- GCGREATER CINTI TELEVISION ED FDNone grant, 2021 · $39k
- COCHURCH OF THE ADVENT GEN OP ACCOUNTone grant, 2017 · $36k
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.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Aca international contributes to the success of its members, the positive reputation of the industry and the health of the economy. we accomplish this by 1) being the comprehensive, knowledge-based resource for the credit and collection…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 31 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 CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds SHAKERTOWN AT PLEASANT HILL KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Historic Southwest Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
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.
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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 Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
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.