· Private foundation
Joanie Jeanne and Howard Bernard Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JOANIE BERNARD FOUNDATION | $93,406,507 |
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 (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93M 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
- THTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI3× · 2020–2022 · $1.7M · revenue +1%
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT3× · 2020–2022 · $450k · revenue +126%
- STSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2022 · $225k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CACINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $586k · revenue +35%
- UCUNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALSone grant, 2022 · $535k · revenue +9% · 30% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $400k
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.
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…
Humane treatment of stray dogs and cats
Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats
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.
HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.
We aim to improve animal welfare and reduce pet homelessness by providing affordable spay neuter services and wellness care enabling a better future for pets their families and all people who love them.
Animal rescue organization
Animal Rescue
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.
Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hamilton County Spca Inc Dba Spca Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is Joanie C Bernard Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 JOANIE C BERNARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ANIMAL CARE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY AREA DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Clermont Animal CARE Humane Society ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER DAYTON ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds My Furry Valentine Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
- Who funds SCRATCHING POST INC ↗
- Who funds BANFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Adams County INC ↗
- Who funds Save Cats & Obliterate Over Population Inc ↗
- Who funds United Spay Alliance ↗
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 C Bernard Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · American Modern Foundation · Scott Kenneth a Charitable Ta · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Best Friends Animal Society · Petco Love · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Celanese Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc
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 Jeanne and Howard 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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