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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.

$9.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$5.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$54MEducation$1.4MFood & Nutrition$740kAnimals$575kEmployment$400kHealth$300kReligion$171kHuman Services$145kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $342k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $877k
  • $250k+5 grants · $7.9M
$28,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$388M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Ken Anderson Alliance: $10k → 16%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%YMCA of Greater Cincinnati: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
IN
OH
UT
KY
NM
KS
OK
AL
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56M · 44 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
45

Total granted

$56M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+33%

Still filing today

57%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • CS
    CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $38M · revenue +198%
  • TC
    The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +64%
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $475k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • ES
    Easter Seals Tristate
    one grant, 2022 · $400k · revenue -7%
  • SV
    St Vincent Depaul of Cincinnati
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • CA
    Cincinnati Area Senior Services Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -74%
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
Muse Cincinnati Womens Choir

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Cincinnati Chamber Music Society

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.

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3
Music and Event Management Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Citymusic Cleveland Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Collegium Cincinnati

To provide musical experiences for audiences throughout cincinnati and around the country.

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6
Oberlin Choristers

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Opera Association Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
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
10
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture
12
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/54
Grantees still filing
33/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $38,292,114 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $2,779,852 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc+24 more: $3,001,928 · Arts & Culture+24 moreCincinnati Opera: $6,564,362 · OtherCincinnati OperaCincinnati May Festival: $2,735,252 · OtherCincinnati May FestivalSchool for Creative and Performing Arts: $507,620 · Other+64 more: $2,405,700 · Other+64 moreFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $600,000 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INC: $105,113 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $7,458 · Food & NutritionXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $475,000 · EducationNOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC: $87,900 · EducationKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85,828 · Education+3 more: $25,120 · EducationZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $550,025 · AnimalsEaster Seals Tristate: $400,000 · EmploymentYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $20,000 · Human ServicesKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $20,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$44,073,894Other$12,212,934Food & Nutrition$712,571Education$673,848Animals$550,025Employment$400,000Human Services$40,000

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 budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $38,292,114 over 8y, 13% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $2,779,852 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $600,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $565,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $550,025 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVOCAL ARTS ENSEMBLE: $490,000 over 8y, 33% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $475,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $400,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC: $370,850 over 7y, 16% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Arts & Education Center: $197,078 over 2y, 13% of budgetCincinnati Chamber Orchestra: $167,500 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetCINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetQUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera: $150,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetSCHOOL HOUSE SYMPHONY: $135,000 over 7y, 30% of budgetBLUE ASHMONTGOMERY SYMPH ORCHESTRA: $131,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetLINTON INCORPORATED: $121,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $120,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $105,113 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCincinnati Area Senior Services Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNOBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE LLC: $87,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $85,828 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Children's Choir: $85,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers: $70,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetSORG OPERA REVITALIZATION GROUP LLC: $55,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetMusic Resource Center - Cincinnati: $55,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMELODIC CONNECTIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY: $36,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetKennedy Heights Arts Center: $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCATACOUSTIC CONSORT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHOLISTIC MANANGEMENT INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJAZZ ALIVE INC: $16,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetAdopt A Class Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMINDFUL MOMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetQUEEN CITY PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Professionals Choral Collective (YPCC): $8,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFARM FOUNDATION: $6,520 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 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 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 ↗

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…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Cincinnati Institute …Charles H Dater Found…The Thomas J Emery Me…Andrew Jergens Founda…John a Schroth Family…Johnson Charitable Gi…Nlt Foundation IncMarge & Charles J Sch…Louise Taft Semple Fo…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH45.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Greenacres Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Greenacres Foundation Inc 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 107 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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