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Nlt Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$273k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$926kEnvironment$334kEducation$201kYouth Development$115kFood & Nutrition$27kAnimals$26kHuman Services$23kReligion$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $227k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MANIFEST CREATIVE RESEARCH GALLERY AND DRAWING CENTER$27,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI$15,000
KIDSINGERS$15,000
CROWN CINCINNATI$15,000
COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST$15,000
ORANGE COUNTY COASTKEEPER$15,000
BOY & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER$15,000
LINTON INCORPORATED$15,000
CINCINNATI BOYCHOIR$12,500
CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI$11,750
JOY OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CINCINNATI LANDMARK PRODUCTIONS$10,000
PACIFIC SYMPHONY$10,000
MAINE COAST FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
PRICE HILL WILL$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HAPPEN INC: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY MATTERS CINCINNATI INC: $10k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND & VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $10k → 16%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $5k → 16%NEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 52 repeat orgs$576k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
65

Total granted

$1.2M
$496k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+25%

Still filing today

90%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • ET
    ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI
    7× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +10%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI
    6× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +381%
  • MC
    Manifest Creative Research Gallery
    3× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +667%

Funded once

  • GU
    GREEN UMBRELLA
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -70%
  • BD
    Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • MC
    MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +78%

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

04Your field

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.

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
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
3
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc

Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.

Arts & Culture
4
Oberlin Choristers

Choristers' mission is to provide the highest quality choral music education and performance opportunities to the culturally and economically diverse children and youth of northeast Ohio.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
6
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
7
Constellation Stage & Screen Inc

The mission of Constellation Stage & Screen is to produce world-class theater and film that impacts the national performing arts industry through new work development. Constellation's productions, community events, and education programs…

Arts & Culture
8
Contemporary Art Group

To educate the public about important art and improving the public's access to it through curated programming.

Arts & Culture
9
Occidental Center for the Arts

Occidental Center for the Arts exists to provide a welcoming and accessible venue for the performing and visual arts in Sonoma County California for local regional national and international artists. our mission is to enrich our community…

Arts & Culture
10
The Center for Contemporary Art

To provide a vibrant, contemporary cultural center through arts education, exhibitions and community outreach that will inspire creativity and enhance people's lives

Arts & Culture
11
The Greater Cincinnati Arts & Education Center

To support, in partnership with Cincinnati Public Schools, the School for Creative and Performing Arts near Music Hall.

Arts & Culture
12
District of Columbia Arts Center

The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The William a Farnsworth Library and Art Museum 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Dance Arts OrganizationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsYouth Development CentersFood Banks and PantriesChristian Youth CampsCommunity College Foundatio…Local Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Local History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%7%5–10yr21%19%10–20yr14%34%20–35yr16%15%35–55yr20%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%2%<5yr12%4%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr14%40%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr20%26%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/107
the rest of the field
11%
8,036/74,199

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.

04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 128 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/101
Grantees still filing
72/101
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $62,500 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATICincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $62,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Playhouse in the ParkManifest Creative Research Gallery — $45,000 · Arts & CultureManifest Creative Research GalleryKIDSINGERS — $38,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $35,000 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 · Arts & CultureLAGUNA ART MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+39 more — $435,650 · Arts & Culture+39 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $60,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREAT…MUSIC RESOURCE CENTER — $22,000 · OtherST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherCROWN CINCINNATI — $15,000 · OtherMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER — $15,000 · OtherElementz — $25,000 · OtherElementzBLOC MINISTRIES INC — $18,000 · Other+39 more — $253,929 · Other+39 moreOrange County Coastkeeper — $32,500 · EnvironmentOrange County Co…GREEN UMBRELLA — $30,000 · EnvironmentGREEN UMBRELLACINCINNATI NATURE CENTER — $28,500 · EnvironmentCINCINNATI NATUR…Coastal Mountains Land Trust — $27,500 · EnvironmentCoastal Mountain…Ohio River Foundation — $25,000 · EnvironmentOhio River Found…Maine Coast Heritage Trust — $20,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heri…Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc — $18,000 · EnvironmentJoy Outdoor Educ…GET INSPIRED — $16,750 · EnvironmentGET INSPIREDImago — $15,000 · EnvironmentImagoCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $15,000 · EnvironmentCIVIC GARDEN CEN…MAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN — $10,000 · EnvironmentMILL CREEK ALLIANCE — $10,000 · Environment+2 more — $12,500 · EnvironmentLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationLONG BEACH…LAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $30,000 · EducationLAGUNA COL…ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI — $27,500 · EducationART ACADEM…Activities Beyond the Classroom — $20,000 · EducationActivities…LEAPS OF IMAGINATION INC — $16,000 · EducationLEAPS OF I…CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $13,000 · EducationCINCINNATI…Wordplay Cincy — $7,500 · EducationROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN — $6,000 · Education+3 more — $12,250 · Education+3 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentADVENTURE CREW — $10,306 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH SHORE CHILDRENS CHORUS CORP — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $10,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Matters Cincinnati Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesNEEDIEST KIDS OF ALL — $7,500 · Human ServicesHAPPEN INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesWASSON WAY — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF BOONE COUNTY ARBORETUM INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsART CENTRAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$773,650Other$428,929Environment$260,750Education$167,250Youth Development$45,306Human Services$32,500Recreation & Sports$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $62,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $62,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery — $45,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetKIDSINGERS — $38,500 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLONG BEACH STATE FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOrange County Coastkeeper — $32,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $30,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAGUNA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER — $28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust — $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC — $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetElementz — $25,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOhio River Foundation — $25,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $24,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetARTS & LEARNING CORPORATION — $24,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetThe Children's Theatre of Cincinnati — $21,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE VISUAL & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers — $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetPacific Symphony — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc — $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Chamber Orchestra — $17,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGET INSPIRED — $16,750 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLINTON INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetImago — $15,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWASSON WAY — $15,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART — $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Legacy Theatre — $12,500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC — $11,600 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCINCINNATI CONTEMPORARY JAZZ — $11,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetADVENTURE CREW — $10,306 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBALLETROX INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPeaslee Neighborhood Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMAINE COAST FISHERMENS ASSN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Louise Taft Semple Fo…The Greater Cincinnat…Charles H Dater Found…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Andrew Jergens Founda…Cincinnati Institute …The Thomas J Emery Me…Millstone FundJohn a Schroth Family…The Frances R Luther …Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Josephine S Russell C…
Louise Taft Semple FoundationOH79.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Millstone Fund · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Josephine S Russell Charitable

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 Nlt Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Balletrox Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Childrens Chorus Corp — 6% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
  • Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Theatrezone Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nlt Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Nlt Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home