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Huntington Charitable 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.

$5.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$4.3MFood & Nutrition$1.3MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$600kEducation$485kYouth Development$480kHuman Services$410kAnimals$385kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.2M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION$1,000,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK$960,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$640,000
LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES$360,000
OTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES$266,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$195,000
TAFT MUSEUM$130,000
ASPCA$120,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$100,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$100,000
SEVEN HILLS SCHOOLS$100,000
HOLOCAUST AND HUMANITY CENTER$100,000
CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
CROHNS AND COLITIS$65,000
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 (FY24–25, $570k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $360k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $105k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $40k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $20k → 16%FIRST STEP HOME: $15k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 26 repeat orgs$160k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
5

Total granted

$6.1M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-2%

Still filing today

46%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • LY
    LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
    2× · 2024–2025 · $465k · revenue +15%
  • TS
    THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +34%
  • TC
    The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education
    2× · 2024–2025 · $130k · revenue +216%

Funded once

  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -2%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINTI
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • LY
    LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH AND FAMILY
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
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
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
2
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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3
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
4
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
5
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
6
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
7
Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc

Legal aid of western ohio, inc. (lawo) is a non-profit law firm that champions equity and justice through client-centered community collaboration and transformative legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
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
10
The Jewish Women's Archive Inc

The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender…

Arts & Culture
11
Cleveland Zoological Society

Cleveland zoological society is the nonprofit partner of cleveland metroparks zoo, committed to raising awareness of the zoo as a community priority; securing private donations; and running a membership program that provides operating and…

Animals
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Denver Art Museum. 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

17 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. 17 of the 33 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $3,750,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATIONCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $130,000 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION: $895,000 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONOTHER PUBLIC CHARITIES: $515,350 · OtherOTHER PUBLIC CHARITIESRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $295,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $230,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYTAFT MUSEUM: $220,000 · OtherTAFT MUSEUMASPCA: $205,000 · OtherASPCACINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $175,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $175,000 · OtherDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $170,000 · Other+11 more: $790,000 · Other+11 moreFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,295,000 · Food & NutritionFREESTORE FOOD…+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $465,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Union Bethel: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $130,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $125,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $255,000 · EducationMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $100,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$3,880,000Other$3,670,350Food & Nutrition$1,305,000Human Services$660,000Arts & Culture$380,000Education$255,000Environment$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $3,750,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,295,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $465,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $255,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $230,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $130,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $130,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: $90,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN HELPING WOMEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
  • Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
  • Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
  • Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds LA SOUPE 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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Peter and Mary Levin Family Foundation · Interact for Change · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Pfau Charitable 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 Huntington Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Huntington Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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 Huntington Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Huntington Charitable 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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