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Lkc Family Foundation Fka - Lkc 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.

$485k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEmployment$805kHuman Services$400kCommunity Improvement$355kEducation$304kPhilanthropy$135kHealth$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$1.3M
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI$150,000
MORTAR CINCINNATI$100,000
CO-OP CINCY$100,000
GREATER CINCINNATI MICROENTERPRISE INITIATIVE$50,000
ARTSWAVE$50,000
UPTOGETHER$32,500
MAYERSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

area typical 9%UPTOGETHER: $33k → 10%UPTOGETHER: $33k → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $27k → 10%UPTOGETHER: $27k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $21k → 16%UPTOGETHER: $25k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $18k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $4k → 16%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $5k → 10%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $500 → 16%LADD LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $500 → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $200 → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $100 → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $3k → 16%TRANSFORMATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE: $100k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $500 → 16%TRANSFORMATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE: $100k → 16%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $300 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
WA
ID
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
AR
TN
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.5M · 21 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
44

Total granted

$5.5M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+39%

Still filing today

76%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • ET
    ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
  • CI
    Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
    6× · 2017–2025 · $263k · revenue +2%
  • GC
    Greater Cincinnati Microenterprise
    4× · 2022–2025 · $180k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -60%
  • UW
    United Way of Greater Cincinnati
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -26%
  • SUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
2
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
3
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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4
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
6
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
7
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
8
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
9
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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10
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban League of Greater Southwestern Ohio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sun Valley Writers' Conference 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Faith CommunitiesHospital Health SystemsDevelopmental Disability Re…Cemetery AssociationsAt-Risk Youth Residential C…Youth and Community Develop…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr20%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%5%<5yr12%5%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr14%9%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr20%29%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
11%
8,037/74,249

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.

04the grantee network

56 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. 56 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
41/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $1,325,833 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATICincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $755,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Playhouse in the ParkCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $262,500 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts+7 more — $47,000 · Arts & CultureHEBREW UNION COLLEGE — $825,150 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGECO-OP CINCY — $403,700 · OtherCO-OP CINCY+33 more — $86,187 · Other+33 moreMortar Cincinnati — $804,400 · EmploymentMortar Cincinnat…+1 more — $1,000 · EmploymentTRANSFORMATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE — $200,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL — $149,760 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $42,475 · Human Services+7 more — $7,600 · Human ServicesGreater Cincinnati Microenterprise — $180,400 · Community ImprovementCorporation for Findlay Market — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $22,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $2,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PARTNERS — $201,150 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $90,500 · Education+3 more — $12,550 · EducationJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $113,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $20,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$2,390,333Other$1,315,037Employment$805,400Human Services$399,835Community Improvement$354,900Education$304,200Philanthropy$134,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $1,325,833 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetMortar Cincinnati — $804,400 over 6y, 11% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $755,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $262,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PARTNERS — $201,150 over 2y, 11% of budgetTRANSFORMATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF BLACK LEADERSHIP AND EXCELLENCE — $200,000 over 2y, 99% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Microenterprise — $180,400 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCorporation for Findlay Market — $150,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $149,760 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati — $113,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE — $90,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $42,475 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $6,807 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY WRITERS' CONFERENCE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $5,550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeam Survivor Northwest — $4,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANGELEY REGION HEALTH AND WELLNESS PARTNERSHIP — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHillman Accelerator — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Children's Choir — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBethany House Services Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARACOLE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCOUNTING FOR KIDS — $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…The Thomas J Emery Me…John a Schroth Family…Millstone FundJohnson Charitable Gi…Carol Ann and Ralph V…The Wohlgemuth Hersch…United Way of Greater…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH46× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Millstone Fund · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Ge Aerospace 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 Lkc Family Foundation Fka - Lkc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Lkc Family Foundation Fka - Lkc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lkc Family Foundation Fka - Lkc Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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