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George Justin Musekamp Fdn Agt For

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Animals$23kEnvironment$13kHuman Services$12kArts & Culture$9kEducation$8kYouth Development$5kHousing & Shelter$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$126k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI ZOO$2,000
IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,500
CITY LIGHT HOME FOR WOMEN CHILDREN$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,200
STEPPING STONES CENTER$1,200
INTERFAITH SANCTUARY SHELTER$1,000
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE$1,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$619
VILLAGE OF INDIAN HILL$500
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC$500
INDIAN HILL FOUNDATION$500
ARTSWAVE$370
LOUIES LEGACY ANIMAL RESCUE$266
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 (FY18–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $750 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $750 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $750 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $750 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $750 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $500 → 16%STEPPING STONES: $2k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $1k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $800 → 16%STEPPING STONES: $800 → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77k · 15 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
15

Total granted

$77k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+18%

Still filing today

53%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IB
    IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +198%
  • BI
    BALLET IDAHO INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +57%
  • LY
    LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
    6× · 2018–2025 · $4k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • SC
    STARFIRE COUNCIL
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • IZ
    IDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +100%
  • LL
    LAURELS LEGACY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -12%
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
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.

Arts & Culture
2
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Idaho Technology Council Inc

To help technology companies in Idaho start, grow, and thrive.

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7
Idaho Law Foundation Inc

The Idaho Law Foundation maintains a continuing legal education program and administers grants to 1) educate the public, 2) provide legal services to the state's indigent, 3) develop programs to improve the administration of justice and…

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8
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
9
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City Inc

Icic drives inclusive economic prosperity in under-resourced communities through innovative research and programs to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.

Housing & Shelter
10
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
11
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
12
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Idaho Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is Laurels Legacy Inc. 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

18 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. 18 of the 35 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI ZOO: $21,500 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOOUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW SCHOOL: $5,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI LAW SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $5,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCITY LIGHT HOME FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $3,500 · OtherCITY LIGHT HOME FOR WOMEN & CHILDRENSTEPPING STONES CENTER: $2,600 · OtherINTERFAITH SANCTUARY SHELTER: $2,000 · Other+17 more: $14,877 · Other+17 moreIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $11,250 · EnvironmentIDAHO BOTANICAL…BOISE RIVER ENHANCEMENT NETWORK INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentBOISE RIVER ENH…STEPPING STONES INC: $4,400 · Human ServicesSTEPPING S…LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $4,250 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE…BALLET IDAHO INC: $7,900 · Arts & CultureBALLET IDA…Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $370 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $200 · Arts & CultureUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,244 · PhilanthropyLAURELS LEGACY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCincinnati Bar Foundation: $2,550 · Crime & LegalINDIAN HILL FOUNDATION: $2,099 · Education
Other$55,177Environment$12,250Human Services$8,650Arts & Culture$8,470Philanthropy$3,244Crime & Legal$2,550Education$2,099

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $11,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBALLET IDAHO INC: $7,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $4,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $4,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Bar Foundation: $2,550 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN HILL FOUNDATION: $2,099 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $1,244 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati: $200 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.

  • Who funds IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET IDAHO INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Bar Foundation ↗
  • Who funds INDIAN HILL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH SANCTUARY HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAURELS LEGACY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOISE RIVER ENHANCEMENT NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds Louies Legacy Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗

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 Cincinnati FoundationOH16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Williams Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 George Justin Musekamp Fdn Agt For funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Justin Musekamp Fdn Agt For. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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    How do I get to George Justin Musekamp Fdn Agt For?

    Find your warmest path to George Justin Musekamp Fdn Agt For 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 35 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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