· Private foundation
J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR BLIND | $10,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY VOICES | $7,500 |
| CINCINNATI STREET SOCCER | $5,000 |
| FIRST TEE | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI SOCCER CLUB | $5,000 |
| HEARING SPEECH & DEAF CENTER | $5,000 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| SERENITY RECOVERY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $5,000 |
| CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MELANOMA KNOW MORE | $5,000 |
| CANCER FAMILY CARE | $3,000 |
| OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOXES | $3,000 |
| SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER | $2,500 |
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 (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 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- OVOHIO VALLEY VOICES9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +68%
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +39%
- TMTAFT MUSEUM OF ART9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CACINCINNATI ART CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +53%
- ARAVIAN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- MPMARIEMONT PRESERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -38%
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
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…
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.…
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
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…
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.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 75 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 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 GORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ART CLUB ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds Faith Freedom Life ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The T Squash Academy ↗
- Who funds SERENITY CONSULTANTS 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: 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
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 Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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