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Gladys Wittmeyer Knox Foundation at a glance

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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.

$36k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$97kHuman Services$59kYouth Development$43kCommunity Improvement$17kReligion$10kFood & Nutrition$9kArts & Culture$9kHealth$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$693k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $4k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $8k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $7k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $6k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$240k · 17 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$240k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+7%

Still filing today

65%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionReligionOther
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

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +36%
  • IC
    INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +75%
  • HP
    HYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • GG
    GRANNY'S GARDEN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • OL
    OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUE AT UC
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • DF
    DEACONESS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -66%
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
Goodwill Industries of Greater Cleveland and East Central Ohio Inc

We empower people on their journey to independence through the sale of donated goods, which supports employment programs and family services.

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2
Cincinnati Union Bethel

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

Human Services
3
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.

Recreation & Sports
4
The Cincinnati Foundation for the Aged
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5
Ohio District 5 Area Agency On Aging Inc

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…

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6
Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society

The preservation and restoration of historic cincinnati memorial hall as a place for public gatherings and performances

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Observatory Center

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

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

Human Services
9
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

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

Human Services
10
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
11
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

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

Health
12
Luther Home of Mercy Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 31 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $29,000 · OtherHYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDE…MAPLE KNOLL OUTREACH SERVICES: $17,000 · OtherMAPLE KNOLL OUTREACH SERVICESSCORE: $10,000 · OtherSCOREEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $6,000 · OtherEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTERCLOUGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $3,452 · Other+10 more: $21,000 · Other+10 moreOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN: $8,000 · EducationROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDENINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $43,358 · Human ServicesINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNIT…Wesley Community Services Organization: $13,000 · Human ServicesWesley Community Services O…GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $6,500 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATIONCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $3,300 · Human ServicesMEDIA HERITAGE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI TYPE & PRINT MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $5,376 · HealthONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC: $2,000 · HealthFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $3,000 · Religion
Other$94,952Education$83,000Human Services$66,158Arts & Culture$10,000Health$7,376Food & Nutrition$7,000Religion$3,000

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 budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $43,358 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetHYDE PARK MULTI-SERVICE CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS: $29,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWesley Community Services Organization: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN: $8,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $6,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $5,376 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDIA HERITAGE INC: $5,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $3,452 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEACONESS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI TYPE & PRINT MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO VALLEY GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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…Charles Scott Riley I…William P Anderson Fo…Marge & Charles J Sch…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Maxwell C Weaver Foun…Sutphin Family Founda…John a Schroth Family…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Orpha Ann Gatch Found…J Frederick & Helen B…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH30.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Gladys Wittmeyer Knox Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Gladys Wittmeyer Knox 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 31 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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