· Private foundation
Nabama Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k15 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WCET | $17,000 |
| FREE STORE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| SW HARBOR TRENTMONT AMBULANCE | $5,000 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY | $5,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS | $5,000 |
| SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| DRANGONFLY FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $2,000 |
| THINK TV | $1,240 |
| FRIENDS OF ACADIA | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $150 |
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, $13k) 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 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
- TGThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation9× · 2017–2026 · $76k · revenue +41%
- CACRAYONS AND BEYOND INC10× · 2017–2026 · $56k · revenue +45%
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC9× · 2017–2026 · $42k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- KSKY STREASURER-TORNADO RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $15k
- MAMAKE A WISHone grant, 2024 · $9k
- CHCOVENANT HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue +1%
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.
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 CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
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,…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
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…
We are Cincinnati's national theater - committed to bringing diverse, engaging works of great artistry to our community, and to putting Cincinnati's artistic excellence in the national spotlight.
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
Our mission is to deliver state-of-the-art cancer care to patients in their communities through clinical trials. this allows individuals to remain in their won neighborhoods, while receiving the latest and best in cancer screenings,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Seal Cove Auto Museum. 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 54 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 11% 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.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 70 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 The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEAL COVE AUTO MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST HARBOR PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · The James J and Joan a Gardner Family Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Josephine S Russell Charitable · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens 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 Nabama 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.