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Earthward Bound Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cincinnati Public Radio | $55,000 |
| National Public Radio | $50,000 |
| Cincinnati Art Museum | $17,500 |
| Clifton Cultural Arts Center | $10,000 |
| StoryCorps | $10,000 |
| Art Academy Of Cincinnati | $8,000 |
| Contemporary Arts Center | $7,500 |
| Al Otro Lado | $5,000 |
| World Central Kitchen | $5,000 |
| Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park | $3,500 |
| Border Angels | $3,000 |
| Athenaeum Music & Arts Library | $2,750 |
| Manifest Creative Research Gallery | $2,600 |
| ArtsWave | $2,500 |
| Corporation For Findlay Market | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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.
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.
90 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC3× · 2022–2025 · $140k · revenue +6%- SISTORYCORPS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +61%
- NFNPR FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $70k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CJCALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INCone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue -51%
- MHMusic Hall Revitalizaiton Companyone grant, 2021 · $40k
- NVNew View Campaignone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
Ensemble theatre of cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic over-the- rhine, dedicated to engaging, enriching and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premier productions, creating and…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
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.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Joy to the World Namibia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
86 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. 86 of the 137 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 NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STORYCORPS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NPR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds MUSICNOW ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AL OTRO LADO ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Deer Hill Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds BORDER ANGELS ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE PACIFIC SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT FAMILIES TOGETHER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust
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 Earthward Bound Foundation 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.
- From the Top Inc — 6% 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.