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Patricia Kisker Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$480k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Health$550kArts & Culture$460kHuman Services$255kAnimals$175kYouth Development$125kEducation$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kFood & Nutrition$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
contemporary arts center$75,000
LIGHTHOUSE BEACON FOR YOUTH$50,000
PROKIDS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$50,000
KENNEDY HEIGHTS ART CENTER$25,000
THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION$25,000
ISPACE$25,000
BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER$25,000
CLIFTON CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$25,000
BETHESDA FOUNDATION$25,000
THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$20,000
WAVE FOUNDATION$15,000
CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS$15,000
ACTIVITIES BEYOND THE CLASSROOM$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $335k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $25k → 11%MAYO HOME FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $25k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $20k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 16%CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $20k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $25k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTHWESTERN OHIO: $10k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $35k → 16%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $25k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $25k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $25k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $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 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 12 repeat orgs$860k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
21

Total granted

$1.2M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+37%

Still filing today

83%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $455k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +23%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI
    3× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +35%
  • CM
    CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER
    2× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +51%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • U
    UPSPRING
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +22%

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
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.…

—
2
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

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

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 Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
8
Art Opportunities Inc

To create community driven public art and launch careers for youth and artists.

Arts & Culture
9
Fotofocus Cincinnati
Arts & Culture
10
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.

—
11
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
12
The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio

Creating lasting results that strengthen families and our community by guiding individuals from infancy to independence through comprehensive education, behavioral, and health services.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Mayo Home for Youth Development 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 backsteadyHistoric Preservation & Mus…Performing Arts Organizatio…Hospital Systems and Health…Southwestern Ohio Community…Regional Economic Developme…Residential Care ServicesYouth & Recovery ServicesCommunity Development Organ…
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 48 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%14%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr15%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr15%48%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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/39
the rest of the field
13%
720/5,464

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

39 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. 39 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Glad House Inc — $75,000 · OtherGlad House IncTHE SALVATION ARMY — $65,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYLIGHTHOUSE BEACON FOR YOUTH — $50,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE BEACON FOR YOUTHCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $50,000 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATESUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATICINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $50,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITALDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS- DAYTON — $25,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $25,000 · OtherTENDER MERCIES INC — $25,000 · OtherCLOVERNOOK CENTER- THE BLIND — $25,000 · OtherTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION — $25,000 · OtherUPSPRING — $25,000 · OtherCINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH — $25,000 · OtherJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc — $25,000 · Other+9 more — $90,000 · Other+9 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER — $175,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTERCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIAT…The Contemporary Arts Center — $75,000 · Arts & CultureThe Contemporary Arts Cent…CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · Arts & CultureKennedy Heights Arts Center — $25,000 · Arts & CultureClifton Cultural Arts Center — $25,000 · Arts & CultureISPACE INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreBEECH ACRES — $100,000 · Human ServicesBEECH ACRESClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired — $75,000 · Human ServicesClovernook Center …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $60,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National …Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home of…MAYO HOME FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMAYO HOME FOR YOUT…LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH S…STEPPING STONES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES IN…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSIT…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $175,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICA…FREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS — $15,000 · Food & NutritionProKids — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$705,000Arts & Culture$480,000Human Services$335,000Philanthropy$250,000Animals$175,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Civil Rights$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER — $175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBEECH ACRES — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGlad House Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUPSPRING — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCINCINNATI GOLDEN GLOVES FOR YOUTH — $25,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETHESDA FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAYO HOME FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities Southwestern Ohio — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAxis Teen Centers — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN CHILDRENS FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 7.2% 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…John a Schroth Family…Millstone FundAndrew Jergens Founda…Pfau Charitable Found…Sutphin Family Founda…Josephine S Russell C…Charles H Dater Found…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Jack J Smith Jr Chari…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Thomas J Emery Me…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH47.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Millstone Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial

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 Patricia Kisker 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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