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Michael Ibold Wilger 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $86,500 |
| BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES | $11,000 |
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, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2019–2025 · $364k
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER4× · 2017–2022 · $77k · revenue -43%
- CLCLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue -49% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- ESEMERGENCY SHELTER OF N KENTUCKYone grant, 2021 · $35k
- CPCINCINNATI PRESERVATION SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $30k
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE2× · 2017–2018 · $15k
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.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
The Cleveland Christian Home, Inc. exists to be a haven of hope for children, youth, and families struggling with mental illness, abuse, and neglect in Northeast Ohio.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Tender mercies transforms the lives of homeless adults with mental illness by providing security, dignity, and community in a place they call home.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
Gateways is designed to help adolescents and adults whose alcohol or drug use is interfering with their personal achievement and safety and/or healthy family communication. this program allows men, women and children to address their…
The mission of the christ hospital foundation ('tch fdn') is to support the mission of the christ hospital ('tch'). tch's mission is to improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The First Step Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clark Lake Spirit Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 25 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 MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds CLARK LAKE SPIRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHATFIELD EDGE ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds TALBERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UC HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
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: Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Ed & Joann Hubert Family Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Williams Foundation · Edelweiss Foundation · The Wyler Family Foundation · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Marge & Charles J Schott 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 Michael Ibold Wilger 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.
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