· Private foundation
Dudley Taft Charitable Foundation Co Fifth
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
- 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 |
| THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against -79% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 36 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 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 THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CEELI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dudley Taft Charitable Foundation Co Fifth funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dudley Taft Charitable Foundation Co Fifth. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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