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Maxwell C Weaver Foundation at a glance

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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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$259kHealth$236kHuman Services$215kYouth Development$80kEducation$75kHousing & Shelter$75kFood & Nutrition$48kCommunity Improvement$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALLET & BOOKS$5,000
STEPPING STONES$5,000
ROBERT O'NEAL MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER$5,000
FERNSIDE$5,000
CHURCH OF OUR SAVIORLIVES UNITED$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
LYRICA$5,000
YOUR STORE OF THE QUEEN CITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMP KESEM: $5k → 14%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $5k → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $5k → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $5k → 12%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 16%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 16%THE POINT ARC: $5k → 11%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 16%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $5k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 16%THE CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 16%SEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES: $10k → 16%LADD INC: $5k → 16%LADD INC: $5k → 16%EVERY CHILD SUCCEEDS INC: $5k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 16%STEPPING STONES: $5k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 16%INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES: $5k → 16%NEW LIFE FURNITURE INC: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI UNION BETHEL: $5k → 16%THE HEALING CENTER: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IN
OH
CA
KY
AZ
NM
NC
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 68 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
53

Total granted

$1.1M
$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+23%

Still filing today

65%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CP
    CINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +46%
  • MW
    MAY WE HELP INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +446%
  • CU
    CINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +735%

Funded once

  • SH
    SEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +133%
  • Y
    YWCA
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • OF
    ONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture
2
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights
3
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

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.…

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4
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

—
5
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
6
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
7
Know Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
8
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Cincinnati Parks Foundation

To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.

Recreation & Sports
11
World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

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…

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12
Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
57/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD: $30,000 · OtherERS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherFAMILIES FORWARD: $25,000 · OtherProKids: $25,000 · Other+70 more: $614,526 · Other+70 moreSTEPPING STONES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES …CINCINNATI WORKS: $20,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKSStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesStrategies to En…SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMM…FOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS ON YOUTH I…Cincinnati Union Bethel: $15,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Union…The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's H…Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $10,000 · Human ServicesLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INC: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $35,000 · Human Services+7 moreCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $42,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI PRE…Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Cha…Cincinnati Public Radio Inc: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Pub…ART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUNIT…THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE V…Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Pla…CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUS…VENT HAVEN MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureVENT HAVEN MUS…BALLET AND BOOKS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET AND BOO…+6 more: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMAY WE HELP INC: $30,000 · HealthMAY WE HEL…FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $20,000 · HealthFERNSIDE I…Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $15,000 · HealthRedwood Sc…Cancer Family Care Inc: $10,000 · HealthCancer Fam…GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $10,000 · HealthGOOD SAMAR…BETHESDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthBETHESDA F…ONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC: $5,000 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · HealthMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $5,000 · HealthHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthPLAN OF SOUTHWEST OHIO INC: $5,000 · HealthCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC: $25,000 · Community ImprovementYour Store of the Queen City: $25,000 · Community ImprovementBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $20,000 · Community ImprovementWordplay Cincy: $15,000 · EducationOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $10,000 · EducationSchool Board School: $5,000 · EducationCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $5,000 · EducationTHE HILLSIDE TRUST: $15,000 · EnvironmentGORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentGREAT PARKS FOREVER: $5,000 · Environment
Other$724,526Human Services$195,000Arts & Culture$177,500Health$120,000Community Improvement$70,000Education$35,000Environment$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $42,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetMAY WE HELP INC: $30,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI URBAN PROMISE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetProKids: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYour Store of the Queen City: $25,000 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCincinnati Chamber Orchestra: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStrategies to End Homelessness Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY: $18,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HILLSIDE TRUST: $15,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFOCUS ON YOUTH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY SENIOR CITIZENS APARTMENTS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAIN CINCY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWordplay Cincy: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $11,426 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEVEN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDEACONESS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVENT HAVEN MUSEUM: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET AND BOOKS: $10,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetONECITY FOR RECOVERY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSQUARE1 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ProKids ↗
  • Who funds Your Store of the Queen City ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra ↗
  • Who funds FERNSIDE INC A CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
  • Who funds Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ↗
  • Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds THE HILLSIDE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY SENIOR CITIZENS APARTMENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
  • Who funds CAIN CINCY ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Sutphin Family Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Millstone FundJohn a Schroth Family…Charles H Dater Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…The Thomas J Emery Me…Jack J Smith Jr Chari…Pfau Charitable Found…Louise Taft Semple Fo…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH83.9× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maxwell C Weaver Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maxwell C Weaver Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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