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Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$88kFood & Nutrition$2kCommunity Improvement$1kHealth$500Human Services$500Religion$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
FREESTORE FOODBANK$1,263
SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY$1,000
OHIO HUMANITIES$1,000
CORPORATION FOR FINDLAY MARKET$1,000
PEASLEE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC$500
OTR FILM FESTIVALLIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC$500
J PAUL GETTY TRUST$500
Individual grant recipient$500
SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST$500
LA SOUPE INC$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY: $1k → 11%J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $500 → 14%LESLIE LOHMAN MUSEUM OF ART: $3k → 17%LA SOUPE INC: $500 → 16%FILTER PHOTO: $500 → 14%OTR FILM FESTIVALLIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC: $500 → 16%FREESTORE FOODBANK: $1k → 16%OHIO HUMANITIES: $1k → 16%CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER: $83k → 16%PEASLEE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $500 → 16%SALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $500 → 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.
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 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
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
2
Fotofocus Cincinnati
Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Arts Association

The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…

Arts & Culture
4
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
5
The Florence Center for Contemporary Music
Arts & Culture
6
Hunter Museum of American Art

The Hunter Museum of American Art collects, preserves, and presents American art and connects the community through inspiring educational and visitor-focused experiences for all.

Arts & Culture
7
Art Explorium
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8
Berggruen Institute
Education
9
Art Opportunities Inc

To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.

Arts & Culture
10
The Luminary Inc

The luminary is a nonprofit art space in st. louis that supports artists and the community through exhibitions, residencies, grants, and public programs. we provide time, space, and resources for creative work and create opportunities for…

Arts & Culture
11
Kmac Museum

Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.

Arts & Culture
12
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freestore Foodbank Inc; the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Contemporary Arts Center: $83,000 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Arts Center+2 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureOHIO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $500 · OtherPeaslee Neighborhood Center Inc: $500 · OtherSALEM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $500 · OtherOTR FILM FESTIVALLIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED INC: $500 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,263 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INC: $500 · Food & NutritionCorporation for Findlay Market: $1,000 · Community ImprovementTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$86,500Other$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,763Community Improvement$1,000Philanthropy$500

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 budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $83,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorporation for Findlay Market: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER EYE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Fotofocus Cincinnati?

    Find your warmest path to Fotofocus Cincinnati 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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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