· Private foundation
Louis T Block Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CAMP HAYO-WENT-TA | $15,000 |
| ROCKDALE TEMPLE | $3,000 |
| THE HILLSIDE TRUST | $2,500 |
| UNITED WAY | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO | $1,500 |
| TERRACE PARK VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICES INC | $1,500 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS INC | $500 |
| ARTSWAVE | $500 |
| THE STEVEN DRONSFIELD FOUNDATION | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- THTHE HILLSIDE TRUST7× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +63%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC4× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +230%
- CACRAYONS AND BEYOND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- PPSSGELone grant, 2021 · $2k
- GMGREATER MILFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +28%
- RLRUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUNDone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -8%
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
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.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…
Nurture friendships and exchange ideas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Greenacres 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 46 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) — 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 62 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 HILLSIDE TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds JOSH CARES INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds GREATER MILFORD AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RUTH LYONS CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds Know Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Greenacres Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK ↗
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 · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd
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 T Block 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.