· Private foundation
Mlfb 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
- Under $10k20 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI ZOO | $27,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $3,000 |
| THE SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY | $2,500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR | $2,000 |
| SIESTA KEY KIWANIS CLUB | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF WINTER HILLS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY | $989 |
| KEY CHORALE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS | $500 |
| PROSTATE CANCER FDN | $500 |
| FREESTONE FOOD BANK | $300 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSN | $300 |
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 (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +39% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Mercy Ships International8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +303%- JLJunior League of Cincinnati2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +1%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- NDNORTE DAME MISSIONone grant, 2024 · $4k
- SOSISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMURone grant, 2024 · $1k
- PCPURCELL CLASS OG 67 SCHLRSHP FNDone grant, 2018 · $1k
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 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…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
The organization's mission is to improve the health status of the community it serves.
Cincinnati children's hospital medical center will be the leader in improving child health. cincinnati children's will provide child health and transform delivery of care through fully integrated, globally recognized research, education,…
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
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 Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation of Cincinnati Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ohio Society Inc. 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 52 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 57 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 Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds THE CIRCUS ARTS CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
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 · Tql Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Mlfb 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.