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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 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.
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 MUSEUM CENTER | $2,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $2,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI STATE TECHNICAL AND COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $1,700,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $1,500,000 |
| INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000,000 |
| CINCINNATI CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $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 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 +55% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
- PHPRICE HILL WILLone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -21% · 32% of their budget
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Neusole Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 84 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 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOTOFOCUS CINCINNATI ↗
- 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- 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 PRICE HILL WILL ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERLOCHEN CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WILDLIFE CORRIDOR INC ↗
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: 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
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 J & Mary R Schiff 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.
- 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
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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