· Private foundation
Drees Homes Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL | $100,000 |
| SAINT PATRICK SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| NEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC | $100,000 |
| THE POINT ARC | $100,000 |
| ACUE CO DIOCESE OF COVINGTON | $50,000 |
| THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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 34 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 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 Emergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Drees Homes Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Drees Homes Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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