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Dudley Taft Charitable Foundation Co Fifth
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
- $250k+1 grant · $530k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER | $530,000 |
| WAVE FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CEELI INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SW OH REGION | $10,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -79% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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, 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 Arts6× · 2020–2025 · $160k · revenue +2%
- WFWave Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +84%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CICINCINNATI INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS (TAFTone grant, 2021 · $60k
- MCManifest Creative Research Galleryone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAWone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
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 collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Manifest Creative Research Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Wave Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEELI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Music Resource Center - Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM OF ATHLETICS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL ↗
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: Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Earthward Bound Foundation · Nlt Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr
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 Dudley Taft Charitable Foundation Co Fifth 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% 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.
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