· Private foundation
Lewis & Marjorie Daniel Foundation Co Fifth
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 $10k23 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $8,000 |
| CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $6,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA & | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| COLONIAL WILIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DAN BEARD COUNCILBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS INC | $3,000 |
| FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INC | $3,000 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $3,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION EDUCATIONAL | $3,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| STEPPING STONES INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +27%
- CSCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +59%
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- CCCINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CZCINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICALone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CICINCINNATI INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTSTAFT MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To benefit the general public by preserving natural lands and significant habitats, lands suitable for the production of food, timber, or other cultivated or natural products, lands creating scenic vistas for public enjoyment, lands with…
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc. 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 62 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.
25 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. 25 of the 37 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds THE LAKE PLACID ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC DRAMA AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled 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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Alpaugh Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · John F Barrett Foundation Inc · The Oliver Family Foundation · Hcs Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Millstone Fund
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 Lewis & Marjorie Daniel Foundation Co Fifth 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.