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John a Schroth Family Char Tr at a glance

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John a Schroth Family Char Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.2MHuman Services$3.0MArts & Culture$2.4MHousing & Shelter$1.1MEducation$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MFood & Nutrition$819kEmployment$800kOther$0
02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $850k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS$100,000
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI$100,000
WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES$95,000
GREATER CINCINNATI FILM COMMISSION$90,000
BON SECOURS MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION$84,148
URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER$80,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK$74,980
CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY$74,880
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF$60,000
LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC$60,000
OHIO VALLEY GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$60,000
OVER-THE-RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING$50,000
BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES INC$50,000
EMERGENCY SHELTERS OF NORTHERN$50,000
Cornerstone Renter Equity$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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CIRCLE TAIL INC: $30k → 6%WELCOME HOUSE INC: $35k → 17%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $100k → 11%HOPE HOUSE RESCUE MISSION INC: $30k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $100k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $75k → 11%LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC: $60k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $50k → 11%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $100k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $50k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $40k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $40k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $45k → 16%EPISCOPAL RETIREMENT HOMES: $45k → 16%EPISCOPAL RETIREMENT HOMES: $40k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $40k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $33k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $50k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $49k → 16%ChangingGears: $30k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $35k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $95k → 16%WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $95k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $40k → 16%Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank: $35k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $34k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $30k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $33k → 16%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $30k → 16%THE RESIDENT HOME CORPORATION: $30k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS -: $50k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS -: $30k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS -: $30k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $100k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $65k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $40k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $40k → 16%CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $40k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $80k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $75k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $50k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $50k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $50k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $35k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 140 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

140 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

140
117

Total granted

$13M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

79%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +47%
  • CH
    Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc
    4× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +152%
  • SE
    St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc
    3× · 2018–2022 · $300k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • CA
    Community Action Agency Cincinnati-Ham
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • CO
    Cincinnati Opera Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +45%
  • TC
    The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue -44%
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
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
2
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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3
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
4
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
5
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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6
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
7
The Home Ownership Center of Greater Cincinnati in

The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.

Housing & Shelter
8
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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9
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
10
World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…

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11
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
12
Circle Health Services

Circle Health fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center; the most unlike its peers is Falcon Productions Inc. 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

211 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. 211 of the 272 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
206/211
Grantees still filing
142/211
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $274,000 · Other+104 more: $7,557,663 · Other+104 moreChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc: $324,880 · Human ServicesChildren's Home of No…CINCINNATI WORKS: $205,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKSWesley Community Services Organization: $190,000 · Human ServicesWesley Community Serv…COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNI…CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $120,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $118,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Union Bethel: $115,000 · Human ServicesTALBERT HOUSE: $110,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $109,656 · Human Services+32 more: $1,562,976 · Human Services+32 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $295,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI M…ART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $185,000 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUN…CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $164,730 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI S…Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati P…Cincinnati Opera Association Inc: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati O…The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $125,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinna…ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $110,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THE…ISPACE INC: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $504,500 · Arts & Culture+12 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $499,599 · HealthCHILDREN'S …St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $300,000 · HealthSt Elizabet…FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $125,000 · HealthFAITH COMMU…Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $125,000 · HealthMercy Neigh…The Christ Hospital: $100,000 · HealthThe Christ …The Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation: $88,000 · HealthThe Cincinn…CENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC: $75,000 · HealthRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $65,000 · Health+6 more: $194,000 · Health+6 morePEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC: $190,000 · Housing & ShelterShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterBethany House Services Inc: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterCARACOLE INC: $80,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF GREATER: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterFRANCISCAN MINISTRIES INC: $45,000 · Housing & ShelterPRICE HILL WILL: $28,031 · Housing & ShelterCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $225,000 · Community ImprovementBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCATALYTIC DEVELOPMENT FUNDING CORP OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $75,000 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementCITYLINK CENTER: $50,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CINCINNATI REDS COMMUNITY FUND: $25,000 · Community ImprovementUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $90,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $75,000 · Philanthropy1N5: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCenter for Great Neighborhoods of Covington: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$7,831,663Human Services$3,020,512Arts & Culture$1,729,230Health$1,571,599Housing & Shelter$633,031Community Improvement$575,000Philanthropy$480,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $499,599 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc: $324,880 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $295,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $239,980 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Film Commission: $215,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $205,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWesley Community Services Organization: $190,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati: $190,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC: $190,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $185,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $170,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC: $165,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $164,730 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBon Secours Mercy Health Foundation: $164,148 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD: $155,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLA SOUPE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCincinnati Opera Association Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC: $121,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $120,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $118,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $117,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel: $115,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC: $111,715 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSTARFIRE COUNCIL OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $110,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI: $110,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $109,656 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFound Village: $107,600 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC: $105,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $105,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetThe Christ Hospital: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $100,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired: $99,276 over 2y, 0.8% 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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…The Greater Cincinnat…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Millstone FundUnited Way of Greater…Sutphin Family Founda…Pfau Charitable Found…The Thomas J Emery Me…Jack J Smith Jr Chari…Josephine S Russell C…
Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH191.1× affinity100 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Millstone Fund · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Josephine S Russell Charitable

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 John a Schroth Family Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John a Schroth Family Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    83report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 272 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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