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J Cromer Mashburn Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAM HUBBARD FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $1,000 |
| WESTERN GOLF ASSOCIATION EVANS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $750 |
| ION CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION | $500 |
| SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION | $400 |
| STEPPING STONES | $400 |
| OCEAN REEF FOUNDATION | $400 |
| HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI | $400 |
| THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL | $300 |
| BEST POINT EDUCATION AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $250 |
| PRO KIDS | $250 |
| LASOUPE | $250 |
| THE SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $250 |
| CCHMC - CANCER TREATMENT INNOVATION | $250 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $200 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +50%
- LSLA SOUPE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +193%
- STSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- OROCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -3%
- SSSTEPPING STONES SPORTING CLAYS EVENTone grant, 2023 · $900
- SSSTEPPING STONES OPEN YOUR HEARTone grant, 2023 · $760
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.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
Creating adventure, conveying knowledge, conserving nature, and serving the community. with the addition of our fourth pillar to our mission statement, serving community, we recognize the responsibility to partner with diverse and…
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
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.
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
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.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
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…
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seven Hills School and the most unlike its peers is ProKids. 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.
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 47 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Sam Hubbard Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KENZIE'S CLOSET ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE TAIL INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PI BETA PHI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INC ↗
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 · Synchrony Foundation · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · John F Barrett Foundation Inc · The Oliver Family Foundation · Homan Foundation · Betagole Family Foundation Inc % Robert Betagole · Williams Foundation · The Wyler 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 J Cromer Mashburn Family 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.
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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