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Joanie C Bernard 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.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$735k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Animals$3.9MCommunity Improvement$738kSocial Science$511kPublic Benefit$250kHousing & Shelter$50kHealth$40k
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.7M
$100,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS$735,000
CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE$500,000
OHIO ALLEYCAT RESOURCE & SPAY NEUTER$500,000
CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL$225,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON$200,000
SPAY-NEUTER SERVICES INC$200,000
BLUEGRASS AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT$160,000
NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPEMENT$150,000
SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF$150,000
MY FURRY VALENTINE$100,000
GATEWAY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC$100,000
HAMILTON COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE$100,000
LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE$100,000
FAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$60,000
PETS IN NEED OF GREATER CINCINNATI$50,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TEAM SHELTER USA LLC: $50k → 13%SPAY-NEUTER SERVICES INC: $200k → 16%HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY: $50k → 6%LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $100k → 9%SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF: $300k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $60k → 15%RASCAL CHARITIES INC: $50k → 15%CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE: $500k → 16%BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $40k → 16%NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPEMENT: $150k → 7%BLUEGRASS AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $250k → 15%KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY: $40k → 15%GATEWAY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $100k → 21%SPAY-NEUTER SERVICES INC: $200k → 16%LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $50k → 9%SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF: $211k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $50k → 15%CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE: $214k → 16%BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $40k → 16%NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPEMENT: $150k → 7%BLUEGRASS AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $200k → 15%GATEWAY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $100k → 21%SPAY-NEUTER SERVICES INC: $200k → 16%LEAGUE FOR ANIMAL WELFARE: $50k → 9%SOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF: $150k → 14%FAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $45k → 15%CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE: $200k → 16%BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $40k → 16%NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPEMENT: $38k → 7%BLUEGRASS AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: $160k → 15%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON: $350k → 14%OHIO ALLEYCAT RESOURCE & SPAY NEUTER: $500k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON: $200k → 14%OHIO ALLEYCAT RESOURCE & SPAY NEUTER: $500k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON: $200k → 14%OHIO ALLEYCAT RESOURCE & SPAY NEUTER: $255k → 16%SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%MY FURRY VALENTINE: $100k → 16%MY FURRY VALENTINE: $50k → 16%HAMILTON COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE: $150k → 16%HAMILTON COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE: $100k → 16%HAMILTON COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE: $100k → 16%PETS IN NEED OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $50k → 16%UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS: $735k → 16%UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS: $714k → 16%UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS: $600k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $40k → 16%HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM OF: $50k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 17 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$8.5M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+63%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $433k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24’25
AnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UC
    UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +11% · 39% of their budget
  • CA
    CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $914k · revenue +38%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON
    3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TS
    TEAM SHELTER USA LLC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -17%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +79%
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
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
2
Humane Society of Union County Inc

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.

Animals
3
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
4
Save Ohio Pets

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…

Animals
5
Claws and Paws for a Cause

For our community we provide high quality low cost spay and neuter services as well as low cost vaccinations. we do have programs that allows us to help the families that have pets but are in financial strain and not able to have their…

Religion
6
Animal Aid

Veterinary services at low cost to athens, tn community.

Animals
7
Haywood Pet Care Inc

Providing low-cost spay/neuter services and animal wellness programs

Animals
8
Columbus Pet Rescue

Rescue and adoption of animals

Animals
9
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
10
Unos Home for Wayward Cats and Dogs

Animal rescue organization

Animals
11
Humane Society of Richland Wilkin Co

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.

Animals
12
Lawrence County Humane Society Inc

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

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Angies Dog House. 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

21 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. 21 of the 29 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS: $2,049,000 · AnimalsUNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALSOhio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc: $1,255,000 · AnimalsOhio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic IncCINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY: $914,000 · AnimalsCINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETYHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON: $750,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTONSPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA: $600,000 · AnimalsSPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA+14 more: $885,000 · Animals+14 moreSOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF: $661,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OFBLUEGRASS AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $610,000 · OtherBLUEGRASS AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTR…HAMILTON COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE: $350,000 · OtherHAMILTON COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THENORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPEMENT: $337,500 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPEM…CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL: $225,000 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICALGATEWAY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INC: $200,000 · OtherGATEWAY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRIC…BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $120,000 · Other+2 more: $52,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Animals$6,453,000Other$2,556,000Philanthropy$40,000

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 budgetUNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS: $2,049,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetOhio Alleycat Resource & SpayNeuter Clinic Inc: $1,255,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetCINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY: $914,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON: $750,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetSPAY NEUTER SERVICES OF INDIANA: $600,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetLeague for Animal Welfare: $200,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFAYETTE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $155,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetMy Furry Valentine Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetBROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $120,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetHOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM: $75,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHUMANE ASSOCIATION OF WARREN COUNTY -OHIO: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPets in Need of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetRASCAL CHARITIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Spay Alliance: $15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BUTLER COUNTY ANIMALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCRATCHING POST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

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.

Joanie Jeanne and How…Petco LovePetsmart Charities IncThe Greater Cincinnat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Scott Kenneth a Chari…The Dorothy B Francis…American Modern Found…The Scripps Howard Fo…Best Friends Animal S…The Duffield Family F…Celanese Foundation
Joanie Jeanne and Howard Bernard FoundationOH26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Joanie C Bernard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joanie C Bernard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Joanie C Bernard Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Joanie C Bernard Foundation 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 29 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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