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John F Barrett Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| LADD INC | $2,500 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $250 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $200 |
| KENNEBUNKPORT CONSERVATION TRUST | $200 |
| STEPPING STONES | $200 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 3 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- KCKENZIE'S CLOSET5× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +127%
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Arts2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +2%
- CCCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- KRKING RECORDS LEGACY INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -93%
- FAFINE ARTS FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati develops and connects leaders, contributors, organizations, and ideas to build an inclusive Jewish community that helps people in need, supports Israel, and assures a vibrant Jewish future.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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. 49 of the 122 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 KENZIE'S CLOSET ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW K DWYER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KING RECORDS LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE ↗
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 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Williams Foundation · Hcs Foundation · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · The Heidt Family Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Pfau Charitable Foundation
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 F Barrett Foundation Inc 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.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 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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