· Private foundation
John J & Mary R Schiff 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+25 grants · $46M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $7,970,000 |
| WESLEY SERVICES ORGANIZATION FKA WESLEY HALL INC | $5,150,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $5,000,000 |
| PROKIDS | $3,000,000 |
| FOTOFOCUS | $2,750,000 |
| NORTHERN CINCINNATI FOUNDATION (USS CINCINNATI MEMORIAL PEACE PAVILION) | $2,500,000 |
| CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $2,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $2,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $1,700,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $1,500,000 |
| CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA5× · 2018–2023 · $37M · revenue +241% · 45% of their budget
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $33M · revenue +24%
- TCThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati4× · 2022–2025 · $22M · revenue +16% · 52% of their budget
Funded once
- COCOLLEGE OF MEDICINE - UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2024 · $2.0M
- ESEaster Seals Tristateone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue -18%
- CHCROSSROADS HEALTH SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
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.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
The cincinnati usa convention & visitors bureau is an aggressive sales, marketing, and service organization. our primary responsibility is to positively impact the region's area economy through convention, tradeshow and visitor…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
Ccad fosters a diverse community that educates students so they can unleash their creative power to shape culture and commerce.
How this is measured
44 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. 44 of the 84 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 CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds FOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Tristate ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHERN CINCINNAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PRICE HILL WILL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WILDLIFE CORRIDOR 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: Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John J & Mary R Schiff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John J & Mary R Schiff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
- Cape Cod Writers' Center Inc: 5% of income from government
- Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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