· Private foundation
James R and Karen Huesing Family Foundat
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $7,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH | $6,000 |
| LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC | $5,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| ST WILLIAMS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST ROSE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITY | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of James R and Karen Huesing Family Foundat’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $27k · revenue +83%- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +3%
- TSTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN3× · 2023–2025 · $13k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SCSUMMIT COUNTRY DAY ANDREW J HUESINGone grant, 2022 · $20k
- ASALSAC SAINT JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCHone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CACINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -30%
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.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Provides the community necessary medical care through specialty physicians.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
How this is measured
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 82 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND AT LAKE LOUISE ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds CISE Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRAY HOPE BELIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds THE OPHTHALMOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds USA CARES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Hcs Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Nlt Foundation Inc · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Homan Foundation · Building Healthy Lives Foundation · American Modern Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James R and Karen Huesing Family Foundat funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James R and Karen Huesing Family Foundat. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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