· Private foundation
John and Ellen Zembrodt Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN CHURCH | $25,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| XAVIER MISSION FUND | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE MOUNTAINS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FR BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION CENTER | $5,000 |
| ROSE GARDEN HOME MISSION | $5,000 |
| PARENTAL-HOPE | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CENTER | $2,500 |
| DREWS PUZZLE PIECE | $2,500 |
| FIRE FOUNDATION NKY | $2,500 |
| ST LEO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH MISSION WORKERS | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF KENTUCKIANA | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $2,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR TOTAL RECOVERY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue -96% · 74% of their budget
- FBFR BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $15k
- RGRose Garden Mission3× · 2020–2022 · $15k
Funded once
- SAST AUGUSTINE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $15k
- SAST ANTHONY CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $15k
- FBFr Beiting Appalachian Missionone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 mission of Teresian House Nursing Home is to provide care and services to the community in conformance with the theology, philosophy, teachings, and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, respecting and building on the mission,…
To provide a home and an extended family to persons with terminal illnesses so they can die with dignity surrounded by the unconditional love of god. we will use our lived experience as a resource for others.
To offer a comfort care ministry to residents who are nearing the end of a terminal illness, and to their families, by providing a home environment of love, dignity, and support.
The organization's mission is to reduce the extent and consequences of homelessness in franklin and surrounding counties. this is accomplished by providing two low-barrier shelters that accommodate homeless men, women, and children.…
To serve women struggling with unplanned pregnancy by providing housing, food and life training to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the mother and baby.
Offer freedom from addiction through christ-centered recovery.
Catholic Housing Initiative's mission is to provide an affordable housing option for low-income independent seniors.
The restoration house of east tennessee, inc accomplishes its purpose by providing supportive transitional housing and team mentoring in a safe environment where single mothers and their families have an opportunity to restore life's four…
Lifecare for adults 62 and over.
Provider of hospice care to terminally ill persons
Mary's home seeks to provide a faith-based transitional pathway leading expectant women and new mothers to a life of self-sufficiency and dignity for themselves and their babies.
To provide quality care, facilities, and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Total Recovery Inc. 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 59 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 FOUNDATION FOR TOTAL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Xavier Mission Fund ↗
- Who funds PARENTAL HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY ROSE MISSION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BE CONCERNED INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds Grace After Fire ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · The Butler Foundation · Unnewehr Family Foundation · Edelweiss Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Baird Foundation 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 John and Ellen Zembrodt Family 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.
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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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