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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$59,221
Largest grant, FY2025
$191,420
Organizations funded a year
17 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$1.3M0%
FY202418$1.3M0%
FY202317$1.3M29%
FY202218$1.3M0%
FY202118$1.3M11%
FY202018$1.3M6%
FY201918$1.2M17%
FY201818$1.3M6%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$6.1MHealth$3.3MHuman Services$510kEducation$493kAnimals$493kReligion$345kPhilanthropy$173kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OH
KY
VA
MD
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cincinnati Museum Center$1,282,58271%
Cincinnati Museum Association$1,232,55791%
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts$1,106,07371%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati$492,74490%
Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home$492,744924%
Shakertown at Pleasant Hill Kentucky Inc$492,74491%
American Heart Association Inc$488,75590%
Historic Southwest Ohio Inc$451,746920%
The Salvation Army$337,2916n/a
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$200,76060%
American Cancer Society Inc$174,75530%
Cincinnati Preservation Association$136,44293%
Church of the Advent$77,0722n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCincinnati Museum Center: $1,282,582 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCincinnati Museum Association: $1,232,557 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $1,106,073 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetZoological Society of Cincinnati: $492,744 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home: $492,744 over 9y, 24% of budgetShakertown at Pleasant Hill Kentucky Inc: $492,744 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $488,755 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Southwest Ohio Inc: $451,746 over 9y, 20% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $200,760 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $174,755 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Preservation Association: $136,442 over 9y, 3.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua

How much does Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua give?
Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua reported 18 grants totaling $1,348,485 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Health (28%), Human Services (4%).
Who are Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cincinnati Museum Center ($1.3M), Cincinnati Museum Association ($1.2M), Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($1.1M).
Does Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua based?
Dorothy M M Kersten Tr Ua is based in WI.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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