· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of HYMAN & BESSIE PASSMAN FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| LINCOLN W PAVEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TRIDELTA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL FUND | $7,500 |
| MOELLER HIGH SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HILLEL OF CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI TENNIS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAYERSON FOUNDATION - MAYERSON JCC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 87% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $41k · revenue +11%
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC6× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +61%
- JCJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- MAMAKE A WISHone grant, 2023 · $26k
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +14%- ACAlameda County Library Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +61%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
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…
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
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,…
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…
The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
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 Hyman & Bessie Passman Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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