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J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$108k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$208kEducation$188kHealth$166kEnvironment$75kAnimals$60kHuman Services$42kRecreation & Sports$41kYouth Development$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND$10,000
OHIO VALLEY VOICES$7,500
FIRST TEE$5,000
HEARING SPEECH & DEAF CENTER$5,000
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER$5,000
SERENITY RECOVERY NETWORK$5,000
CINCINNATI STREET SOCCER$5,000
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$5,000
CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY$5,000
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
CINCINNATI SOCCER CLUB$5,000
MELANOMA KNOW MORE$5,000
CANCER FAMILY CARE$3,000
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOXES$3,000
INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES$2,500
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 (FY17–25, $73k) 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%CHANGING GEARS: $3k → 15%TALBERT HOUSE: $3k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $8k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $5k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $5k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $5k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $4k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $3k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $3k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $1k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $4k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $4k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND: $3k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $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.
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$765k · 36 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
28

Total granted

$765k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+39%

Still filing today

61%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentReligionOther
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

  • OV
    OHIO VALLEY VOICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +68%
  • CN
    CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +39%
  • TM
    TAFT MUSEUM OF ART
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • CA
    CINCINNATI ART CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +53%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THER ASA WRIGHT
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CA
    CINCINNATI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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 Chamber Orchestra

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

Arts & Culture
2
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…

Arts & Culture
3
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…

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4
Cincinnati Preservation Association

To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.

Arts & Culture
5
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Cincinnati Observatory Center

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
8
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

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

—
9
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

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

Recreation & Sports
10
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
11
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement
12
Cincinnati Arts Association

The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association; the most unlike its peers is Faith Freedom Life. 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

47 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. 47 of the 75 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)
46/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CINCINNATI ZOO: $47,500 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOOLLANFAIR TERRACE LIFE CARE FUND: $42,000 · OtherLLANFAIR TERRACE LIFE CARE FUNDKNOW THEATRE: $18,000 · OtherKNOW THEATREEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $17,650 · OtherEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTERHEARING SPEECH & DEAF CENTER: $16,500 · OtherCincinnati Soccer Club Ltd: $15,000 · OtherTHE FIRST TEE - GCNKY: $14,000 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF: $13,000 · OtherWOMANS ART CLUB OF CINCINNATI: $12,000 · Other+33 more: $134,650 · Other+33 moreOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $76,500 · EducationOHIO VALLEY VOICESNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 · EducationNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNI…SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $26,500 · EducationSPRINGER SCHOOL AND C…ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $19,000 · EducationART ACADEMY OF CINCIN…+3 more: $8,000 · EducationCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $50,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM AS…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $43,500 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $34,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CE…CINCINNATI ART CLUB: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI ART CLUBThe Contemporary Arts Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Art…+4 more: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $67,000 · EnvironmentCINCINNATI…GORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentGORMAN HER…CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentCARDINAL L…+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentBEECH ACRES: $33,500 · Human ServicesBEECH ACR…Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $28,000 · Human ServicesCincinnat…INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $6,000 · Human ServicesINNER CIT…TALBERT HOUSE: $3,000 · Human ServicesCHANGINGGEARS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCancer Family Care Inc: $21,000 · HealthMelanoma Know More: $17,000 · HealthSERENITY CONSULTANTS INC: $5,000 · HealthRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $2,500 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthALS UNITED OHIO INC: $2,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 · HealthSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,150 · Religion
Other$330,300Education$172,000Arts & Culture$160,000Environment$84,500Human Services$73,000Health$53,000Religion$15,150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $76,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $67,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $50,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $43,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $33,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER: $26,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $21,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER: $17,650 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetMelanoma Know More: $17,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $15,150 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Soccer Club Ltd: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCINCINNATI ART CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetThe Contemporary Arts Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $6,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBethany House Services Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERENITY CONSULTANTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM: $5,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WYOMING FINE ARTS CENTER: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdopt A Class Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGINGGEARS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUBREY ROSE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALS UNITED OHIO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center: $2,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWave Pool Corp: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetProKids: $1,000 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 OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds EAST END ADULT EDUCATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Melanoma Know More ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Soccer Club Ltd ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI ART CLUB ↗
  • Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds GORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds Faith Freedom Life ↗
  • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
  • Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds The T Squash Academy ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY CONSULTANTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

Robert a & Marian K K…The Greater Cincinnat…Johnson Charitable Gi…Charles Scott Riley I…The Thomas J Emery Me…Helen E Allen Charita…Sutphin Family Founda…Charles H Dater Found…The Wohlgemuth Hersch…John a Schroth Family…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Carol Ann and Ralph V…
Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable TrustOH62× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Helen E Allen Charitable Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr 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 J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust?

Find your warmest path to J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust 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 75 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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