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Kohnen 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 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
- Under $10k9 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $90,000 |
| LADD | $50,000 |
| INTER PARISH MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| STEPPING STONES | $12,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| 1 N 5 | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| STARFIRE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $10,000 |
| ARTWORKS | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $8,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against -36% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- LALiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc6× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +46%
- LHLydia's House Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +46%
- LYLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES5× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MEMADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -72%
- IPINTERFAITH PARISH MINISTRYone grant, 2019 · $10k
- YOYWCA of Greater Cincinnatione grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -22%
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.
Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…
Mid-Ohio Foodbanks mission is to end hunger one nourishing meal at a time while co-creating communities where everyone thrives.
To build a thriving and more just community, Community Matters goes beyond the traditional nonprofit model by forming partnerships with our neighbors instead of viewing them only as clients to be provided a service. We believe our…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Your Store of the Queen Citys mission empowers neighborhood-based entities to expand fresh food access & create community-based jobs by supporting the development & networking of resident- centered, culturally & economically inclusive…
Cincinnati works brings hope and encouragement to people living in poverty while assisting them in advancing to self-sufficiency through employment. we provide free training and coaching services.
United Way leads and mobilizes the caring power of individuals and organizations to help people measurably improve their lives.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The organization is a Christ-centered ministry that meets the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of hurting people in the greater Lexington area. Its activities are focused on rebuilding lives.
The west side catholic center provides food, clothing, shelter, and advocacy to all who come to us in need. through various programs, we serve the homeless and indigent of cleveland, ohio.
Cleveland public market corporations mission is to preserve the city's public market tradition while making the local food system more accessible, equitable, and diverse.
4MyCity is committed to helping reduce food insecurity and reducing food waste by directly transferring fresh, usable food that would otherwise been thrown away from grocers, restaurants, and other food industry sources to food insecure…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freestore Foodbank Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 34 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds APARTMENT ASSOCIATION OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds MADISONVILLE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Scripps Howard Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Farmer Family 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 Kohnen Family 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.
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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