· Private foundation
Joanie C Bernard Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS | $714,000 |
| OHIO ALLEYCAT RESOURCE & SPAY NEUTER | $500,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF | $300,000 |
| CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE | $200,000 |
| BLUEGRASS AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT | $200,000 |
| SPAY-NEUTER SERVICES INC | $200,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON | $200,000 |
| NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPEMENT | $150,000 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE | $100,000 |
| GATEWAY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC | $100,000 |
| FAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE | $50,000 |
| MY FURRY VALENTINE | $50,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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 (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k 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
- UCUNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS2× · 2023–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +11% · 39% of their budget
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +61%
- CACINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $414k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- TSTEAM SHELTER USA LLCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- HAHOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAMone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -10%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +79%
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.
The Humane Society of Union County exists to reduce the number of abused, abandoned, and neglected cats and dogs through rescue, rehabilitation, adoption, and spay and neuter.
SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
To improve the qulity of life for companion animals, to place homeless cats & dogs in suitable homes, & to provide programs to reduce the overpopulation and euthanasia of companion animals.
Animal rescue organization
Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats
The Hardin County Humane Society is dedicated to the prevention and alleviation of animal suffering, the elimination of pet overpopulation, and the education for the public about responsible pet ownership in the are served by the Society.
Animal protection and welfare.
The primary purpose of the Lawrence County Humane Society is to relieve pain and suffering among animals to prevent cruelty to animals and to extend humane education to the community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Coalition for Animals and the most unlike its peers is The University of Cincinnati Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Ohio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds FAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds My Furry Valentine Inc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds United Spay Alliance ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SCRATCHING POST 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: Joanie Jeanne and Howard Bernard Foundation · Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Scott Kenneth a Charitable Ta · The Dorothy B Francis Charitable Foundation · American Modern Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Celanese 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 Joanie C Bernard 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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