· Private foundation
Matinee Musicale Endowment Fund Inc
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 $10k39 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| IMMANUEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| VIVA VOICES CHORAL ORGANIZATION | $3,500 |
| CORRYVILLE SUZUKI PROJECT | $3,000 |
| CINCINNATI HILLS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CINCINNATI STRING PROJECT | $3,000 |
| QUEEN CITY OPERA | $3,000 |
| PEASLEE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 20 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- PNPeaslee Neighborhood Center Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +83%
- QCQUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera5× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +46%
- PHPRICE HILL WILL4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- GCGREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION DONOR ADVISED FUNDSone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KCKRISTINE CLAIR UCHI GALANOone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
MUSE is an inclusive and feminist choral community advocating for peace and social justice. We unite our voices to raise awareness and inspire change in ourselves, our audiences, and our world through partnerships that honor the humanity…
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…
Music Performance - Performing free concerts of new symphonic music
Chamber music cincinnati presents the finest international chamber music ensembles, plus others well-established but still developing, and builds present and future chamber music audiences and artists.
Non-profit organization dedicated to presenting frees concert of Classical Music
Choristers' mission is to provide the highest quality choral music education and performance opportunities to the culturally and economically diverse children and youth of northeast Ohio.
Citymusic cleveland is a professional chamber orchestra, which performs free concerts throughout n.e. ohio, accompanied by art shows of local artists. our mission is to develop audiences & build communities through the arts by presenting…
Educational opportunities in the performing arts and fine arts through private and group lessons. Among others, classes include acting, dance, voice, piano, and guitar. Cincinnati Academy of Performing Arts has 465 students in its classes…
To provide musical experiences for audiences throughout cincinnati and around the country.
Presentation of classical chamber music in central ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Musical Festival Association and the most unlike its peers is Queen City Chamber Opera Dba Queen City Opera. 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 25 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 126 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 WINTON WOODS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Corryville Suzuki Project ↗
- Who funds QUEEN CITY CHAMBER OPERA DBA Queen City Opera ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SONG INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds PRICE HILL WILL ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI FUSION ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds Activities Beyond the Classroom ↗
- Who funds Kennedy Heights Arts Center ↗
- Who funds MELODIC CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYOMING FINE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSICAL FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Greenacres Foundation Inc · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Nlt Foundation Inc · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Frances R Luther Charitable 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 Matinee Musicale Endowment Fund Inc 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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