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Farmer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50M
Granted FY2024still arriving
181
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$15M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$70MHealth$53MArts & Culture$18MFood & Nutrition$6.9MAnimals$6.9MEmployment$5.4MHousing & Shelter$4.9MYouth Development$4.8MOther$0
02FY2024 · 181 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k59 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+25 grants · $46M
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$242M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$15,000,000
ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS$5,000,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$2,953,674
MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$2,752,391
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$2,650,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$2,500,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$2,000,000
PROKIDS$2,000,000
MIAMI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$1,634,662
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$1,000,000
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$1,000,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION$600,000
THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI$500,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $4.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FLORIDA KEYS CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $100k → 13%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%HUNTERS FOR THE HUNGRY: $20k → 19%DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER: $8k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DENVER: $10k → 12%KAREN CARNS FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $10k → 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $175k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $255k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $237k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $227k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $226k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $31k → 10%OPERATION RAMP IT UP FOR VETERANS: $20k → 12%OHIO EXCELS: $50k → 15%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $550k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $500k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $85k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $70k → 16%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $25k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $21k → 16%MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $15k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI OHIO: $15k → 16%EMANUEL COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $10k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $35k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 16%SJO KIDS INC: $50k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $100k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $50k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER CINCINNATI-TRI-STATE CHAPTER: $31k → 16%ST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY OF CINCINNATI: $500k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $65k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $30k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $10k → 16%LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC: $8k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $10k → 16%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $20k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $20k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $10k → 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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
KS
NC
SC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$156M · 122 repeat orgs$26M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

122 repeat relationships: 83 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122
64

Total granted

$156M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • MU
    Miami University Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $28M · revenue +14% · 41% of their budget
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.7M · revenue +23%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
  • BH
    Bethany House Services Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
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
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
3
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
4
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
5
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
6
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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7
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
8
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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9
St Martin Hospital Inc

To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
10
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

—
11
Lafayette General Foundation Inc

The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…

Health
12
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in; the most unlike its peers is Honor Flight Tri-State. 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

193 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. 193 of the 231 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
192/193
Grantees still filing
132/193
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $25,340,089 · OtherACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLSMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $7,000,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $3,048,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $3,000,000 · OtherEaster Seals Tristate: $5,020,000 · OtherEaster Seals TristatePEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC: $3,133,620 · OtherProKids: $4,015,000 · Other+118 more: $27,474,074 · Other+118 moreMiami University Foundation: $28,254,211 · EducationMiami University Foundat…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,955,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY+12 more: $1,889,250 · EducationCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5,015,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITA…NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $5,000,000 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SYS…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,500,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX …MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,000,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KET…Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope: $3,030,000 · HealthCraig and Frances …THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $2,350,000 · HealthTHE J DAVID GLADST…VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 · HealthVAN ANDEL RESEARCH…The Christ Hospital Foundation: $2,000,000 · HealthThe Christ Hospita…+19 more: $2,425,000 · Health+19 moreCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15,000,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI…The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureThe Childr…CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $851,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $1,367,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $7,665,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,240,500 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $750,000 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $628,800 · Philanthropy+6 more: $232,500 · PhilanthropyZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $6,745,000 · Animals+3 more: $88,700 · AnimalsFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $5,000,000 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INC: $405,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$78,030,783Education$40,598,461Health$30,320,000Arts & Culture$18,218,000Philanthropy$10,517,300Animals$6,833,700Food & Nutrition$5,410,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiami University Foundation: $28,254,211 over 5y, 41% of budgetACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $25,340,089 over 5y, 11% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $7,665,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $6,745,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $5,020,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $5,015,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $5,000,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $5,000,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $4,955,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $4,500,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetProKids: $4,015,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC: $3,133,620 over 2y, 17% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $3,048,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetCraig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope: $3,030,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $2,402,666 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,400,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $2,350,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,000,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $2,000,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $1,250,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,240,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $1,000,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $976,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetCISE: $876,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $851,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $750,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $750,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENZIE'S CLOSET: $742,500 over 5y, 84% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $650,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $628,800 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCITYLINK CENTER: $600,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $565,688 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $554,500 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $550,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $535,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $531,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPRICE HILL WILL: $500,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetDolly Parton's Imagination Library: $500,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL COMMUNITY PHARMACY OF CINCINNATI: $500,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC: $500,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Hcs FoundationMillstone FundThe Thomas J Emery Me…The James J and Joan …Marge & Charles J Sch…Robert H & Susan F Ca…L & L Nippert Charita…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH90× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Hcs Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation

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 Farmer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farmer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Guadalupe Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 231 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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home