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Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$235k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$431kEducation$218kArts & Culture$213kHuman Services$193kHealth$147kFood & Nutrition$137kYouth Development$61kHousing & Shelter$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$6,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI$60,000
SCPA FUND$27,750
GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$22,500
FREESTORE FOODBANK$20,000
MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN$15,000
MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL$10,750
TRIDELTA FOUNDATION$10,000
LINCOLN W PAVEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL FUND$7,500
MOELLER HIGH SCHOOL$6,500
THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$6,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION$5,000
MAYERSON FOUNDATION - MAYERSON JCC$5,000
INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI$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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $11k → 8%ALAMEDA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $14k → 10%TRIDELTA FOUNDATION: $21k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $23k → 16%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $11k → 8%ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $14k → 10%TRIDELTA FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16k → 16%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10k → 8%TRIDELTA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16k → 16%MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $10k → 8%TRIDELTA FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%STARFIRE COUNCIL: $10k → 16%STARFIRE COUNCIL: $10k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $65k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $60k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $55k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $45k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $40k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $40k → 16%FREESTORE FOODBANK: $20k → 16%JEWISH FEDERATION OF CINCINNATI: $40k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%CINCINNATI HOLOCAUST AND HUMANITY CENTER: $10k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%MAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $15k → 16%FREESTORE FOODBANK: $10k → 16%LINCOLN W PAVEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $15k → 16%SCPA FUND: $28k → 16%SCPA FUND: $28k → 16%THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $26k → 16%SCPA FUND: $25k → 16%SCPA FUND: $25k → 16%SCPA FUND: $23k → 16%SCPA FUND: $22k → 16%SCPA FUND: $20k → 16%SCPA FUND: $20k → 16%SCPA FUND: $10k → 16%MAKE A WISH: $26k → 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
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 82%.

Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$973k · 28 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
20

Total granted

$973k
$111k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+39%

Still filing today

43%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • MM
    MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $41k · revenue +11%
  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +61%
  • JC
    Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati
    7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • MA
    MAKE A WISH
    one grant, 2023 · $26k
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +14%
  • AC
    Alameda County Library Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +61%
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
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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2
Hillel the Foundation of Jewish Campus Life

The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…

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3
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.

Recreation & Sports
4
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…

Human Services
5
Junior League of Cincinnati Endowment Trust

The Junior League of Cincinnati Endowment Trust Fund is an endowment trust committed to and managed for the exclusive benefit of the Junior League of Cincinnati. To ensure the continuation and stability of its programs and to promote and…

Community Improvement
6
United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation

The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.

Philanthropy
7
Ohio United Way

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

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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9
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
10
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
11
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.

Human Services
12
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio; the most unlike its peers is Tennis for Charity Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 51 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCPA FUND: $200,125 · OtherSCPA FUNDMAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDREN: $135,000 · OtherMAYERSON CENTER FOR SAFE AND HEALTHY CHILDRENGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $81,000 · OtherGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONTRIDELTA FOUNDATION: $60,500 · OtherTRIDELTA FOUNDATIONSTARFIRE COUNCIL: $32,500 · OtherMAYERSON FOUNDATION - MAYERSON JCC: $32,500 · OtherTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Other+24 more: $232,300 · Other+24 moreJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $398,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Cincinnat…MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $41,250 · EducationMARIN MON…LINCOLN W PAVEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationLINCOLN W…WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $27,500 · EducationWALNUT HI…THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $17,500 · EducationTHE SEVEN…Alameda County Library Foundation: $13,500 · EducationAlameda C…+1 more: $1,250 · EducationFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $40,500 · Food & NutritionLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $39,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Cincinnati Tennis Foundation: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsFound House-Interfaith Housing Network: $35,000 · ReligionTENNIS FOR CHARITY INC: $6,500 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME: $1,500 · HealthCINCINNATI CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE FOUNDATION: $600 · HealthCancerFree KIDS: $500 · Health
Other$805,925Philanthropy$398,000Education$129,000Food & Nutrition$63,000Recreation & Sports$45,500Religion$35,000Health$14,100

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 budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $398,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL: $41,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $40,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati: $39,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFound House-Interfaith Housing Network: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLINCOLN W PAVEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetWALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlameda County Library Foundation: $13,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTENNIS FOR CHARITY INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cincinnati Tennis Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE OF SOUTHERN OHIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWALKER BRIGHTWELL FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI CONCOURS D'ELEGANCE FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancerFree KIDS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARC OF APPALACHIA: $500 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 Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Found House-Interfaith Housing Network ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN W PAVEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALNUT HILLS HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Alameda County Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TENNIS FOR CHARITY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON CHILD ABUSE OF SOUTHERN OHIO INC ↗
  • Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation ↗

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…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Duke Energy FoundationThe Scripps Howard Fo…Betagole Family Found…Ruth J & Robert a Con…Baird Foundation IncUnited Way of Greater…Citizens Charitable F…Schulzinger Frankel F…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH31.1× affinity14 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 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Betagole Family Foundation Inc % Robert Betagole · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Schulzinger Frankel Family 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 Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inc. 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%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable 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 51 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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