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Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$450k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through 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 FY2021–2024.

Arts & Culture$375kEducation$275kHuman Services$235kHealth$200kCommunity Improvement$75kYouth Development$75kFood & Nutrition$50kHousing & Shelter$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART OPPORTUNITIES INC$25,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$25,000
CENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT INC$25,000
GREATER CINCINNATI BEHAVIORAL HEALT$25,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN OHIO$25,000
FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF KENTUCKY$25,000
BEHRINGER-CRAWFORD MUSEUM BOARD OF$25,000
URBAN LEAGUE$25,000
CANCER FAMILY CARE INC$25,000
ION CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION$25,000
THE WYOMING FINE ARTS CENTER$25,000
GREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION EDUCA$25,000
PROKIDS$25,000
XAVIER JESUIT ACADEMY$25,000
CINCINNATI PUBLIC RADIO INC$25,000
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 (FY22–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25k → 16%SAMARITAN CAR CLINIC INC: $25k → 11%ION CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION: $25k → 11%EPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES FDN: $25k → 16%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%ST JOSEPH INFANT & MATERNITY HOME: $25k → 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 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
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati

To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.

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6
The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission

The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission is dedicated to maximizing the area's economic potential by attracting, promoting and cultivating film, television, and commercial production throughout Greater Cincinnati. Once filmmakers choose…

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7
Cincinnati Arts and Technology Center

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.…

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8
Cincinnati Arts Association

The Cincinnati Arts Association (CAA), a not-for-profit, was founded in 1990 to serve as a manager, presenter and educator. CAA's mission is to present a broad range of high quality performing and visual arts programs, develop diverse…

Arts & Culture
9
World Affairs Council - Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky

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…

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10
Literary Cleveland

Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.

Education
11
Cincinnati Aquatic Club

To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…

Recreation & Sports
12
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

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.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Voice for the Innocent. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr15%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr15%16%35–55yr15%28%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
13%
809/6,207

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

51 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. 51 of the 61 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
24/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER — $25,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE — $25,000 · OtherSISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE — $25,000 · OtherOUR DAILY BREAD — $25,000 · OtherCINCINNATI COMMUNITY TOOLBANK — $25,000 · OtherCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $25,000 · OtherLEARNING GROVE INC — $25,000 · OtherGREATER CINCINNATI TELEVISION EDUCA — $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS — $25,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS OF GREATER CINCINNATI IN — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HARRIET BEECHER — $25,000 · OtherGRANT US HOPE INC — $25,000 · OtherSt Rita School For The Deaf — $25,000 · OtherXAVIER JESUIT ACADEMY — $25,000 · OtherLITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK — $25,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — $25,000 · OtherGREATER CINCINNATI BEHAVIORAL HEALT — $25,000 · OtherFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF KENTUCKY — $25,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD — $25,000 · OtherGirl Scouts of Western Ohio — $25,000 · OtherVALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherBLOC MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 · OtherProKids — $25,000 · OtherJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $25,000 · Other+2 more — $20,000 · OtherCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Institute of F…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ARTTHE WYOMING FINE ARTS CENTER — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WYOMING FINE ARTS CEN…Know Theatre of Cincinnati — $25,000 · Arts & CultureKnow Theatre of Cincinnat…Cincinnati Public Radio Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Public Radio I…BEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUMManifest Creative Research Gallery — $25,000 · Arts & CultureManifest Creative Researc…The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Cincinnati Ballet Com…ART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureART OPPORTUNITIES INCClifton Cultural Arts Center — $25,000 · Arts & CultureClifton Cultural Arts Cen…Wave Foundation Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWave Foundation IncCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE CO…OHIO VALLEY VOICES — $25,000 · EducationOHIO VALLEY …The Mercantile Library — $25,000 · EducationThe Mercanti…MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationMOUNT ST JOS…SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER — $25,000 · EducationSPRINGER SCH…Wesley Education Center for Children and Families — $25,000 · EducationWesley Educa…ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI — $25,000 · EducationART ACADEMY …THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC — $25,000 · EducationTHOMAS MORE …KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE — $25,000 · Human ServicesKEN ANDERSO…SAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN C…EPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesEPISCOPAL R…Community Resource Center Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesCommunity R…St Joseph Infant and Maternity Home — $25,000 · Human ServicesSt Joseph I…Ion Center for Violence Prevention Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesIon Center …Joseph House Inc — $25,000 · HealthCancer Family Care Inc — $25,000 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthTHE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 · HealthMotherless Daughters Ministry — $10,000 · HealthOTR ADOPT INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterBethany House Services Inc — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE OF WARREN COUNTY DBA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF WARREN — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE — $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$645,000Arts & Culture$350,000Education$175,000Human Services$150,000Health$110,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Food & Nutrition$25,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WYOMING FINE ARTS CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKnow Theatre of Cincinnati — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Western Ohio — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI COMMUNITY TOOLBANK — $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetKEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOVINGTON LADIES HOME INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Mercantile Library — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAMARITAN CAR CARE CLINIC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBEHRINGER CRAWFORD MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOTR ADOPT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetVALLEY VIEW FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBethany House Services Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPISCOPAL RETIREMENT SERVICES FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF WARREN COUNTY DBA INTERFAITH HOSPITALITY NETWORK OF WARREN — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetManifest Creative Research Gallery — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJoseph House Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetART OPPORTUNITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Resource Center Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGRANT US HOPE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWesley Education Center for Children and Families — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProKids — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK — $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 438 DAN BEARD — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt Joseph Infant and Maternity Home — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HEALTH COLLABORATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIon Center for Violence Prevention Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWave Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Johnson Charitable Gi…The Thomas J Emery Me…John a Schroth Family…Millstone FundElsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Louise Taft Semple Fo…Charles H Dater Found…United Way of Greater…Marge & Charles J Sch…Andrew Jergens Founda…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH68.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Millstone Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · 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 Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank 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 · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank?

    Find your warmest path to Ohio Valley Foundation Fifth Third Bank 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 61 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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