· Private foundation
Millstone Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+10 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITYLINK CENTER | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI OHIO INC | $300,000 |
| FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF KENTUCKY | $300,000 |
| BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER | $300,000 |
| STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS | $300,000 |
| THE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE | $283,000 |
| ROBERT ONEAL MULTICULTURAL ART CENTER (ROMAC) | $250,000 |
| VALLEY INTERFAITH COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $250,000 |
| ADDICTION SERVICES COUNCIL | $250,000 |
| GREAT PARKS FOREVER | $250,000 |
| INTERACT FOR CHANGE | $200,000 |
| WOMEN HELPING WOMEN OF HAMILTON COUNTY | $200,000 |
| 1N5 | $200,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $150,000 |
| EPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES | $150,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 60 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
- BABEECH ACRES3× · 2023–2025 · $850k · revenue +27%
- TCThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio3× · 2022–2025 · $520k · revenue +14%
- WHWOMEN HELPING WOMEN3× · 2023–2025 · $450k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- AOART OPPORTUNITIES INCone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
- THTALBERT HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +6%
- TCTHE CROSSROADS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue +2%
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 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.…
Cincinnati works brings hope and encouragement to people living in poverty while assisting them in advancing to self-sufficiency through employment. we provide free training and coaching services.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
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 ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
Our mission is to promote a just and peaceful community by honoring all people, building their capacity to act, and facilitating opportunities for them to engage in conflict constructively. We continue to fulfill our mission by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and the most unlike its peers is The Mary Magdalen 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
152 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. 152 of the 180 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 BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds INTERACT FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TALBERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CITYLINK CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
- Who funds Family Nurturing Center of Kentucky ↗
- Who funds THE CROSSROADS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MindPeace Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Glad House Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT PARKS FOREVER ↗
- Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY INTERFAITH COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ADDICTION SERVICES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Every Child Succeeds ↗
- Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · 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 Millstone Fund 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.