· Private foundation
Louise Taft Semple Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · $39k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $522k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $260,000 |
| ARTWORKS | $150,000 |
| MANIFEST CREATIVE RESEARCH GALLERY & DRAWING CENTER | $100,000 |
| LADD - LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED | $100,000 |
| ENSEMBLE THEATRE CINCINNATI | $75,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER | $75,000 |
| MERCANTILE LIBRARY | $75,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $70,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $65,000 |
| SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI MEMORIAL HALL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| XAVIER JESUIT ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC | $50,000 |
| WAVE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 16 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $286k 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
- CCCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $779k · revenue +20%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI8× · 2017–2024 · $713k · revenue +478%
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Arts8× · 2017–2024 · $630k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- CTCINCINNATI THEATRE OF CINCINNATIone grant, 2022 · $200k
- TSTHE SCPA FUNDone grant, 2023 · $30k
- CUCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FEDERATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k
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.
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.…
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…
It is the mission of the Cincinnati Youth Choir to offer all children and youth the opportunity to experience musical excellence in a creative environment.Participants demonstrate musical understanding, artistry, achievement and confidence…
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Muse Cincinnati Womens Choir. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
141 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. 141 of the 202 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Mercantile Library ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Manifest Creative Research Gallery ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Wave Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE TANDANA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Every Child Succeeds ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI ↗
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 Thomas J Emery Memorial · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Josephine S Russell Charitable · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust
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 Louise Taft Semple 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.