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Edelweiss Foundation at a glance

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Edelweiss Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
131
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$265k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$892kHuman Services$827kEducation$808kAnimals$525kYouth Development$382kRecreation & Sports$252kReligion$248kFood & Nutrition$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $141k
  • $10k–50k85 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $970k
  • $250k+1 grant · $265k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI ZOO$265,000
CINCINNATI CANCER FDTN$185,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$120,000
ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL$100,000
SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS$100,000
ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS$100,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ST LOUIS)$65,000
CINCINNATI MINORITY BUSINESS ACCELERATOR$50,000
PROKIDS$50,000
ST MARY'S CHURCH$50,000
THE CHRIST HOSPITAL$50,000
LITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY$50,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$50,000
BEECHWOOD HOME$40,000
CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY$37,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CIRCLETAIL: $5k → 6%ELIZABETH'S NEW LIFE CENTER: $3k → 14%LIFELINE PILOTS: $4k → 14%THE ION CENTER: $25k → 11%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%SAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC: $20k → 11%GIVE LIKE A MOTHER: $10k → 9%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $15k → 12%BE CONCERNED: $10k → 11%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $15k → 12%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $15k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $10k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $10k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $10k → 16%BEST POINT: $75k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $15k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $10k → 16%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $5k → 16%VALLEY INTERFAITH COMMUNITY RESOURCE CTR: $5k → 16%FOREVER KINGS INC: $25k → 16%FOREVER KINGS INC: $15k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $10k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $15k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $5k → 16%NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 16%PREGNANCY CENTER EAST: $2k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
MO
KY
WV
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 58 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

58 repeat relationships: 58 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 72 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
45

Total granted

$3.3M
$797k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+20%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $930k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SE
    SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    The Christ Hospital
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +15%
  • CR
    CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $75k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • CC
    CINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS
    one grant, 2023 · $140k
  • TC
    The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -9%
  • KC
    KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
2
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
3
Cincinnati Union Bethel

Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.

Human Services
4
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
5
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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6
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.

Human Services
7
The Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati in

The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.

Housing & Shelter
8
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
9
The Cincinnati Health Network Inc

The cincnnati health network (chn) is a grantee for the health care for the homeless program in the greater cincinnati area and operates as a federally qualified health center. the chn is also the ryan white part c grantee and provides…

Health
10
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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11
Otr Adopt Inc

To preserve Cincinnatis architectural heritage by facilitating the transfer of vacant historic buildings to responsible new owners

Housing & Shelter
12
Cain Cincy

Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coverd Greater Cincinnati; the most unlike its peers is The Pax House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 175 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/93
Grantees still filing
58/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI ZOO: $525,000 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOOCINCINNATI CANCER FDTN: $235,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CANCER FDTNBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $220,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $200,000 · OtherACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLSCINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS: $140,000 · OtherWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ST LOUIS): $130,000 · Other+113 more: $2,242,033 · Other+113 moreThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $75,000 · Human ServicesThe Childr…KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesKAREN CARN…Forever Kings Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesForever Ki…FOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS ON Y…LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $25,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE…NORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesNORTH FAIR…Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesIon Center…THE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST …KENZIE'S CLOSET: $25,000 · Human ServicesKENZIE'S C…NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $20,000 · Human ServicesTALBERT HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC: $20,000 · Human Services+12 more: $72,600 · Human Services+12 moreThe Christ Hospital: $100,000 · HealthBEECHWOOD HOME: $65,000 · HealthCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $60,000 · HealthFAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $40,000 · HealthThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $30,000 · HealthMAY WE HELP INC: $25,000 · Health+3 more: $25,000 · HealthSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $200,000 · PhilanthropyCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $12,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBethany House Services Inc: $41,667 · Housing & ShelterSAFE HAVEN FARMS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLydia's House Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVisionaries and Voices: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWave Foundation Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$3,692,033Human Services$452,600Health$345,000Philanthropy$217,500Housing & Shelter$111,667Arts & Culture$91,000Food & Nutrition$85,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $200,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Christ Hospital: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEECHWOOD HOME: $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetKAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetLITTLE MIAMI CONSERVANCY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetProKids: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $41,667 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetForever Kings Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetWESLEY CHAPEL MISSION CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetThe Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetOUR LADY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS: $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH FAIRMOUNT COMMUNITY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIon Center for Violence Prevention Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAY WE HELP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKENZIE'S CLOSET: $25,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetAdopt A Class Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetLUKE5ADVENTURES: $21,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FARMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOhio River Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budget
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.

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.

Marge & Charles J Sch…Unnewehr Family Found…The Greater Cincinnat…John a Schroth Family…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Johnson Charitable Gi…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Andrew Jergens Founda…Charles H Dater Found…Spaulding FoundationMillstone FundSutphin Family Founda…
Marge & Charles J Schott FoundationOH121.3× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Unnewehr Family Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Spaulding Foundation · Millstone Fund · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edelweiss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edelweiss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Edelweiss Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edelweiss Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 175 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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