· Private foundation
Kythryn & Vishnoo Shahani Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cincy HAT Foundation | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Temple Sholom | $50,000 |
| Seven Hills Schools | $50,000 |
| Sik Gurduwara of NC Fdtn | $10,000 |
| FoundHouse IHN | $10,000 |
| Cincinnati Parks Fndtn | $10,000 |
| Alice Lloyd College | $10,000 |
| LightHouse Family Services | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Found House IHN | $5,000 |
| Clifton Cultural Arts Ctr | $5,000 |
| Epilepsy Fdtn of Cincinnati | $5,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity Cinn | $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 (FY22–23, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
54 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 7 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k 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
- TSTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL3× · 2023–2025 · $151k · revenue +10%
- ALALICE LLOYD COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +78%
- CCClifton Cultural Arts Center2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +127%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FOFriends of Cosita Linda AC Orgone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
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…
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Oberlin College and Conservatory educate students for lives of intellectual, musical and artistic rigor and breadth, sustained inquiry, creativity and innovation, and leadership. Oberlin aims to prepare graduates with the knowledge,…
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
To harness the collective expertise of ohio's ceos to advocate for policies that improve ohio's economic competitiveness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Is Fundamental Inc. 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 50 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 151 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 THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPITE CARE 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 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Earthward Bound Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Kythryn & Vishnoo Shahani Charitable Trust 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.