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Gladys Wittmeyer Knox Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES | $7,000 |
| MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $5,376 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI TYPE AND PRINT MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| SCORE | $1,500 |
| EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +36%
- ICINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +75%
- HPHYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- OLOSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUE AT UCone grant, 2017 · $3k
- GGGRANNY'S GARDEN SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $3k
- DFDEACONESS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -66%
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.
We empower people on their journey to independence through the sale of donated goods, which supports employment programs and family services.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
The ohio district 5 area agency on aging, inc. provides leadership, collaboration, coordination and services to older adults, people with disabilities, their caregivers and resource networks that support individual choice, independence and…
The preservation and restoration of historic cincinnati memorial hall as a place for public gatherings and performances
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.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
Recognizing that we are all created in god's image, the luther home of mercy foundation board's mission is to support the programs and services of luther home of mercy. we are dedicated to helping individuals with intellectual and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Deaconess Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS ↗
- Who funds Wesley Community Services Organization ↗
- Who funds ROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDIA HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DEACONESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI TYPE & PRINT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Maxwell C Weaver Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Orpha Ann Gatch Foundation · J Frederick & Helen B Vogel 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 Gladys Wittmeyer Knox 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.
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.
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