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Homan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$522k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.1MHealth$766kHuman Services$582kRecreation & Sports$236kAnimals$171kPhilanthropy$105kReligion$75kYouth Development$74kOther$0
02FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k58 grants · $139k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
XAVIER UNIVERSITY$100,000
FINAL 2 PERCENT$75,000
CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDEN$50,000
CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC$50,000
SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$46,000
ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS$20,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$12,500
CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY$10,000
SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY$8,000
ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL$6,000
ARCHBISHOP MOELLER HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
ST MATTHEW'S HOUSEIMMOKALEE FRIENDSHIP$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RETT SYNDROME FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $626k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $500 → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $500 → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $500 → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $500 → 14%ORCHARD VILLAGE: $500 → 14%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $1k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $100k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $1k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $5k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $3k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $3k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $2k → 16%KENZIE'S CLOSET: $2k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $2k → 16%THE BDK FUND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $8k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $8k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $8k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $7k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $7k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $2k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $1k → 16%A KID AGAIN: $2k → 16%A KID AGAIN: $2k → 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
MA
OH
PA
KY
TN
DC
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 77 repeat orgs$362k to everyone else

77 repeat relationships: 57 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
37

Total granted

$3.9M
$269k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+19%

Still filing today

60%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TC
    The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio
    6× · 2019–2024 · $501k · revenue +51%
  • TC
    The Christ Hospital Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +106%
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $352k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TF
    Team First Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -85%
  • FT
    FIRST TEAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • PH
    PURCELL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
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
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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2
Children's Hospital Medical Center

Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…

Health
3
Catholic Charities Corporation

Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.

Human Services
4
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
5
Community Mercy Health Partners

The mission of community mercy health partners is to carry out the bon secours mercy health mission within our community by providing safe, effective, patient/resident centered, timely and cost efficient care and education to meet the…

Health
6
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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9
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Catholic Social Services Inc

Motivated by faith, catholic social services helps poor and vulnerable seniors and families reach their potential.

Human Services
12
Jewish Federation of Cincinnati

The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

71 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. 71 of the 126 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
46/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL US CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $1,206,500 · OtherSUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL US CATHOLIC CONFERENCEST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL - ENDOWMENT FUND: $160,000 · OtherST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL - ENDOWMENT FUNDACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherFinal 2 Percent: $75,000 · Other+78 more: $664,533 · Other+78 moreThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $500,000 · HealthThe Christ Hospit…CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · HealthCINCINNATI CANCER…+14 more: $77,300 · Health+14 moreThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $501,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's H…SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $28,000 · Human Services+10 more: $72,100 · Human Services+10 moreXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $352,000 · EducationXAVIER UNI…Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy: $22,000 · EducationCincinnati…Southern Methodist University: $15,000 · Education+3 more: $14,300 · EducationZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $155,000 · AnimalsHARLEQUIN HAVEN GREAT DANE RESCUE: $15,000 · Animals+2 more: $800 · AnimalsUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $75,000 · PhilanthropySTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,500 · PhilanthropyTeam First Foundation: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsCincinnati Parks Foundation: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,206,033Health$677,300Human Services$631,100Education$403,300Animals$170,800Philanthropy$99,000Recreation & Sports$80,000

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 budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $501,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $352,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTeam First Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFinal 2 Percent: $75,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $28,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSTARABILITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCincinnati Hills Christian Academy: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProKids: $22,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $18,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEQUIN HAVEN GREAT DANE RESCUE: $15,000 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKENZIE'S CLOSET: $14,600 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME: $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetST FRANCIS SERAPH MINISTRIES: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rett Syndrome Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVisionaries and Voices: $9,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMORGAN JUDD FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEECHWOOD HOME: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRACING FOR KIDS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LEE COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BDK FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 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 The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Team First Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Final 2 Percent ↗
  • Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy ↗
  • Who funds STARABILITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy ↗
  • Who funds ProKids ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HARLEQUIN HAVEN GREAT DANE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds KENZIE'S CLOSET ↗
  • Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

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…Johnson Charitable Gi…Marge & Charles J Sch…Robert H & Susan F Ca…John a Schroth Family…Hcs FoundationL & L Nippert Charita…Farmer Family Foundat…The Thomas J Emery Me…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Edelweiss Foundation
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH69.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Hcs Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Farmer Family Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Edelweiss 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 Homan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Naples Community Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 Homan Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Homan 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 126 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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