· Private foundation
Maxwell C Weaver Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET & BOOKS | $5,000 |
| ROBERT O'NEAL MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAMILIES FORWARD | $5,000 |
| THE SCPA FUND | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSIC & ARTS PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| KENTUCKY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE | $5,000 |
| YOUR STORE OF THE QUEEN CITY | $5,000 |
| STEPPING STONES | $5,000 |
| FERNSIDE | $5,000 |
| HER CINCINNATI | $5,000 |
| EASTERSEALS REDWOOD | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% 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 +42% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CPCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +46%
- MWMAY WE HELP INC5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +446%
- CUCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC5× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +735%
Funded once
- SHSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +133%
- BBBIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF GREATER CIone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IRImmigrant & Refugee Law Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +57%
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 CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
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.
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.…
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…
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…
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 build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
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…
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 The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is Deaconess Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
78 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. 78 of the 127 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 CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Your Store of the Queen City ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY SENIOR CITIZENS APARTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Wordplay Cincy ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
- Who funds CAIN CINCY ↗
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 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation
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 Maxwell C Weaver 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.