· Private foundation
Drees Homes Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k9 grants · $975k
- $250k+2 grants · $650k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEARNING GROVE | $400,000 |
| SCOUTING AMERICA DAN BEARD COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME OF NKY | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| ENZWEILER BUILDING INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| THE POINT ARC | $100,000 |
| SAINT PATRICK SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC | $100,000 |
| SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL | $100,000 |
| ACUE CO DIOCESE OF COVINGTON | $50,000 |
| THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k 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
- LGLEARNING GROVE INC2× · 2020–2025 · $650k · revenue +18%
- EBENZWEILER BUILDING INSTITUTE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $375k · revenue +26%
- SESt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $300k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- COCITY OF COVINGTONone grant, 2024 · $939k
- SSPARKHAUSone grant, 2024 · $250k
- VHVENT HAVEN MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -54% · 58% of their budget
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.
Elizabeth Seton Housing Corporation provides housing for adults with developmental disabilities who have complex support needs in small residential home environments. The Corporation is operated in connection with the mission of St. Joseph…
The carmelite sisters of the divine heart of jesus of kentucky strive to maintain our home as a true home away from home for our residents. our residents are senior citizens and disabled residents.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.
Day spring provides a path forward for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through services that cultivate hope, belonging, and community.we envision every person being valued and having a path forward regardless of…
The Organization provides mental/development disability and drug and alcohol rehabilitation services to an eight-county area in Southeastern Kentucky. During the year, approximately 9,667 people benefited from this program.
Provide a healthcare facility offering acure care, skilled care, outpatient services, and emergency medical services to residents of carroll county, kentucky and surrounding areas.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Jefferson hills provides a safe, secure, and supportive treatment and learning environment, preparing at-risk youth and their families to function more effectively in our communities.
Garden Path Elder Living operates a residential care home for elders that provide assistance with daily living and nursing oversight.
Empowering people with disabilities to live independent lives in the community.
St john's home for children is a leader in delivering innovative and therapeutic services, in collaboration with our community partners and resources, to promote healing and growth for our children and family prosperity and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Learning Grove Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joseph House 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 34 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 LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds ENZWEILER BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VENT HAVEN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Joseph House Inc ↗
- Who funds BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHATFIELD EDGE ↗
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 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
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 Drees Homes Foundation Inc 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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