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Louis M Groen Foundation CO Lindhorst & Dreidame
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of Louis M Groen Foundation CO Lindhorst & Dreidame’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $293k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+2 grants · $769k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $419,231 |
| Ronald McDonald House | $350,000 |
| Elder High School | $100,000 |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medi | $100,000 |
| Friends of Camp Louis Ernst Inc | $25,000 |
| Freestore Foodbank | $25,000 |
| Make-A-Wish Ohio Kentucky Indiana | $25,000 |
| Cincinnati Nature Center | $25,000 |
| Mary Magdalen House | $25,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospita | $25,000 |
| Versailles American Legion Post 173 | $25,000 |
| Cincinnati Tennis Foundation | $25,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $20,000 |
| Camping Education Foundation | $15,000 |
| Indiana State Council Knights of Co | $15,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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 CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +21%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +74%- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- PLPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $53k
- SCSYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $50k
- CTCIRCLE TAIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +142%
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 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 support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
The cincinnati concours foundation produces a three day weekend of fundraisers to benefit the juvenile arthritis programs and services of the arthritis foundation ohio river valley/great lakes region
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The central indiana land trust, inc. preserves the best of central indiana's natural areas, protecting plants and animals, so hoosiers can experience the wonder of the state's natural heritage.
Transforming generosity into impact by encouraging, supporting, and facilitating philanthropy to create more vibrant communities in northern cincinnati.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Accelerating the most effective gene therapy treatments for children with ultra-rare diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in and the most unlike its peers is The Mary Magdalen Foundation 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 55 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.
16 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. 16 of the 39 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP LOUIS ERNST INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE TAIL INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE MARY MAGDALEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF OH KY & IN ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND HORSEM HORSEMANSHIP ↗
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 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Unnewehr Family Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 Louis M Groen Foundation CO Lindhorst & Dreidame 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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