· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PARENTAL-HOPE | $5,000 |
| FR BEITING APPALACHIAN MISSION CENTER | $5,000 |
| ROSE GARDEN HOME MISSION | $5,000 |
| DREWS PUZZLE PIECE | $2,500 |
| FIRE FOUNDATION NKY | $2,500 |
| BARREN HEIGHTS RETREAT CTR | $2,500 |
| THE BEECHWOOD HOME | $2,500 |
| ST LEO CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT CENTER | $2,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ST JOSEPH MISSION WORKERS | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 ANTHONY CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SAST AUGUSTINE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $15k
- FBFr Beiting Appalachian Missionone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR TOTAL RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds Xavier Mission Fund ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds PARENTAL HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds MARY ROSE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BE CONCERNED INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds Grace After Fire ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Ellen Zembrodt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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