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Greenacres Foundation Inc
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 $10k10 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $342k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $877k
- $250k+5 grants · $7.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra | $5,758,188 |
| Cincinnati Opera | $987,118 |
| Cincinnati Ballet | $411,299 |
| Cincinnati May Festival | $411,299 |
| Utah State University | $324,049 |
| Michigan State University | $230,660 |
| The Ohio State University | $170,647 |
| The Greater Cincinnati Arts & Education Center | $97,020 |
| Xavier University | $90,000 |
| Noble Research Institute | $87,900 |
| Kent State University Foundation Inc | $85,828 |
| Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati | $60,000 |
| Cincinnati Boy Choir Inc | $55,000 |
| Cincinnati Children's Choir | $45,000 |
| Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
44 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 17 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA8× · 2017–2024 · $38M · revenue +198%
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +64%
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $475k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- ESEaster Seals Tristateone grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -7%
- SVSt Vincent Depaul of Cincinnatione grant, 2020 · $200k
- CACincinnati Area Senior Services Incone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -74%
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.
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
Chamber music cincinnati presents the finest international chamber music ensembles, plus others well-established but still developing, and builds present and future chamber music audiences and artists.
Music and event management, inc. (memi), a related tax-exempt organization of the cincinnati symphony orchestra (cso), manages and offers a diverse array of quality performances at riverbend music center, the pnc pavilion, and the taft…
Citymusic cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra, which performs free concerts throughout n.e. ohio, accompanied by art shows of local artists. our mission is to develop audiences & build communities through the arts by presenting…
To provide musical experiences for audiences throughout cincinnati and around the country.
Choristers' mission is to provide the highest quality choral music education and performance opportunities to the culturally and economically diverse children and youth of northeast Ohio.
The second oldest opera company in America, Cincinnati Opera presents dynamic opera productions every summer in Cincinnati's historic Music Hall. Cincinnati Opera is dedicated to educating, entertaining, and inspiring audiences by…
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.
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…
Ensemble theatre of cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic over-the- rhine, dedicated to engaging, enriching and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premier productions, creating and…
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Holistic Manangement International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 107 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 CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds VOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Tristate ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Arts & Education Center ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL HOUSE SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds BLUE ASHMONTGOMERY SYMPH ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LINTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Area Senior Services Inc ↗
- Who funds NOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Children's Choir ↗
- Who funds Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers ↗
- Who funds SORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP LLC ↗
- Who funds Music Resource Center - Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds MELODIC CONNECTIONS ↗
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 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Nlt Foundation Inc · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation
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 Greenacres Foundation Inc 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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