Kentucky · Private foundation
Drees Homes Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Drees Homes Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $1.6M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $2.3M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $840k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $655k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $678k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Covington | $939,498 | 1 | n/a |
| Learning Grove Inc | $650,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Enzweiler Building Institute Inc | $375,000 | 2 | 13% |
| St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Notre Dame Academy | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Thomas More University Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vent Haven Museum | $200,000 | 1 | 58% |
| Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 12% |
| The Pointarc of Northern Kentucky | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc | $180,000 | 1 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Covington | $939,498 | 1 | n/a |
| Learning Grove Inc | $650,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Enzweiler Building Institute Inc | $375,000 | 2 | 13% |
| St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Notre Dame Academy | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Thomas More University Inc | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vent Haven Museum | $200,000 | 1 | 58% |
| Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 12% |
| The Pointarc of Northern Kentucky | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc | $180,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Life Learning Center Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 2% |
| St Joseph Home Inc | $108,000 | 2 | 12% |
| St Joseph Parish | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Joseph House Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Behringer Crawford Museum | $60,000 | 2 | 6% |
| The Boone Conservancy Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 9% |
| The Chatfield Edge | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Drees Homes Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Butler Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc
How this is measured
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About Drees Homes Foundation Inc
- How much does Drees Homes Foundation Inc give?
- Drees Homes Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $1,625,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Drees Homes Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (14%), Public Benefit (13%).
- Who are Drees Homes Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: City of Covington ($939k), Learning Grove Inc ($650k), Enzweiler Building Institute Inc ($375k).
- Does Drees Homes Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Drees Homes Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Drees Homes Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005.
- Where is Drees Homes Foundation Inc based?
- Drees Homes Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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