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Hg Hf & Lt Dornette Foundation

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.

$620k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Animals$625kEnvironment$585kArts & Culture$315kEducation$280kRecreation & Sports$270kHealth$195kHuman Services$125kPhilanthropy$100kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $450k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN$125,000
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S$75,000
BOONE CONSERVANCY$50,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$50,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$50,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$50,000
BETHESDA FOUNDATION$45,000
CINCINNATI ASSOC FOR THE BLIND$25,000
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER$25,000
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$25,000
CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION$20,000
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNAT$20,000
IMAGO$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $125k) 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.

area typical 10%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $25k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOC FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 15 repeat orgs$805k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$1.8M
$605k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UW
    United Way of Greater Cincinnati
    3× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • VV
    VALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +5% · 31% of their budget
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CZ
    CINCINNATI ZOO BOTANICAL GARDEN
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • CC
    CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MP
    MARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Fotofocus Cincinnati
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
West Creek Conservancy

Our mission is to enrich the lives of all people in northeast ohio by conserving natural habitats, restoring the ecological value of our region's lands and waters, and expanding opportunities to connect people from all cultures to…

Environment
4
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
5
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
6
Cincinnati Preservation Association

To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.

Arts & Culture
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
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
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
10
Cincinnati Museum Association

Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.

Arts & Culture
11
The Cincinnati Woman's Club Foundation
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12
Western Reserve Land Conservancy

Land conservation and restoration for public benefit

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Center and the most unlike its peers is Schumacher Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Education & Developme…Hospital Systems and Health…Cincinnati Cultural Institu…Educational Scholarships an…Environmental Conservation …Disability Services Organiz…Arts & Culture Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%33%35–55yr15%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr15%43%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
944/7,334

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CINCINNATI ZOO BOTANICAL GARDEN — $250,000 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOO BOTANICAL GARDENCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S — $150,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDREN'SCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $100,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITALTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTHE SALVATION ARMY — $50,000 · OtherMARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherGROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY INC — $50,000 · OtherXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 · Other+6 more — $130,000 · Other+6 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUN…VALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentVALLEY VIEW FOUNDA…CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER — $50,000 · EnvironmentCINCINNATI NATURE …CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $20,000 · Environment+1 more — $10,000 · EnvironmentZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $375,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCI…Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $90,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Ins…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $75,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF…ISPACE INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureISPACE INCCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUS…Wave Foundation Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWave Foundatio…THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE V…Cincinnati Parks Foundation — $170,000 · Recreation & SportsCincinnati Pa…FC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsFC CINCINNATI…THE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE BOONE CON…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $75,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $25,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK — $25,000 · Human ServicesUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $100,000 · Philanthropy
Other$975,000Environment$430,000Animals$375,000Arts & Culture$340,000Recreation & Sports$320,000Human Services$125,000Philanthropy$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $375,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation — $170,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetFC CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetISPACE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetTHE BOONE CONSERVANCY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK OHIO RIVER VALLEY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWave Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCorporation for Findlay Market — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HAMILTON OHIO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCINCINNATI THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND HORSEM HORSEMANSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPEO Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationJosephine S Russell C…Millstone FundAndrew Jergens Founda…John a Schroth Family…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Pfau Charitable Found…The Thomas J Emery Me…Charles H Dater Found…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH30× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc

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 Hg Hf & Lt Dornette 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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