Ohio · Private foundation
Louise Taft Semple Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $260,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Louise Taft Semple Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 59 | $2.2M | 25% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $1.8M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $1.9M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $1.9M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.5M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $1.5M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $1.7M | 53% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $1.7M | 66% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati | $973,333 | 9 | 5% |
| Music Hall Revitalization Company Inc | $900,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park | $874,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Country Day School | $779,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts | $700,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Seven Hills School | $700,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater Cincinnati | $610,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Taft Museum of Art | $560,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc | $421,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati | $344,250 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 163 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louise Taft Semple Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Louise Taft Semple Foundation
- How much does Louise Taft Semple Foundation give?
- Louise Taft Semple Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $2,185,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louise Taft Semple Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Education (19%), Human Services (8%).
- Who are Louise Taft Semple Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati ($973k), Music Hall Revitalization Company Inc ($900k), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ($875k).
- Does Louise Taft Semple Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louise Taft Semple Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louise Taft Semple Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Thomas J Emery Memorial, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, Charles H Dater Foundation Inc.
- Where is Louise Taft Semple Foundation based?
- Louise Taft Semple Foundation is based in OH.
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