Kentucky · 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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $90k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $82k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $76k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $40k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $53k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for Total Recovery Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 74% |
| St Augustine School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Xavier Mission Fund | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Franciscan Daughters of Mary | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Drews Puzzle Piece Inc | $8,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Rose Garden Mission Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beechwood Home | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Benedict Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parental Hope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foundation for Total Recovery Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 74% |
| St Augustine School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Xavier Mission Fund | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Franciscan Daughters of Mary | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Drews Puzzle Piece Inc | $8,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Rose Garden Mission Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beechwood Home | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Benedict Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Parental Hope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Lydia's House Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Mary Rose Mission | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Be Concerned Inc | $4,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $3,800 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace After Fire | $3,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Welcome House Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercury One Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Michael Church | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Relief Services | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Diocese of Covington | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Notre Dame Academy | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Diocesan Catholic Children's Home Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($248k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
Compare John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation with peer funders
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About John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation
- How much does John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation give?
- John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (44%), Education (14%), Health (10%).
- Who are John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Foundation for Total Recovery Inc ($20k), St Augustine School ($10k), Xavier Mission Fund ($10k).
- Does John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include 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.
- Where is John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation based?
- John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation is based in KY.
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