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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LINTON INCORPORATED$15,000
CROWN CINCINNATI$15,000
KIDSINGERS$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI$15,000
BOY & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER$15,000
COASTAL MOUNTAINS LAND TRUST$15,000
ORANGE COUNTY COASTKEEPER$15,000
CINCINNATI BOYCHOIR$12,500
CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI$11,750
MUTUAL DANCE THEATRE$10,000
JOY OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PRICE HILL WILL$10,000
LAGUNA ART MUSEUM$10,000
MAINE COAST FISHERMEN'S ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • MC
    MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +78%
  • BD
    Bi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +17%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/101
Grantees still filing
73/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $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 INSPIREDCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $15,000 · EnvironmentCIVIC GARDEN CEN…Imago: $15,000 · EnvironmentImagoMAINE 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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 COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAGUNA ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGREEN UMBRELLA: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI: $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $27,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCINCINNATI BOYCHOIR INC: $25,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOhio River Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetElementz: $25,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetARTS & LEARNING CORPORATION: $24,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT: $24,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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 budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers: $20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Symphony: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES 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 budgetWASSON WAY: $15,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLINTON INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetImago: $15,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBi-Okoto Drum & Dance Theatre: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% 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 budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRICE HILL WILL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Matters Cincinnati Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nlt Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nlt Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 128 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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