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Pfau Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$2.5MHealth$2.1MEducation$1.7MArts & Culture$1.4MYouth Development$1.0MHousing & Shelter$751kCrime & Legal$650kEmployment$581kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k41 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $515k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CINCINNATI FDN$100,000
CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS INC$60,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF$55,000
BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES INC$50,000
CINCINNATI INST OF FINE ARTS$50,000
STARFIRE COUNCIL OF GREATER CINCINNATI I$50,000
COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE$50,000
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE$50,000
MINDPEACE$50,000
CINCINNATI EYE INSTITUTE$40,000
STEPPING STONES INC$40,000
LEARNING GROVE INC$40,000
CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISU$40,000
1N5$40,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK$40,000
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 (FY17–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CAMP KOINONIA FOUNDATION INC: $30k → 12%FOCUS ON YOUTH: $25k → 12%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $40k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $40k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $25k → 11%LADD: $75k → 16%KEN ANDERSON ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $50k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $40k → 16%STEPPING STONES INC: $40k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $40k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $30k → 16%SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 16%BEECH ACRES PARENTING CENTER: $25k → 16%SJO KIDS INC: $30k → 16%SJO KIDS INC: $30k → 16%ST ALOYSIUS ORPHANAGE: $25k → 16%ST ALOYSIUS ORPHANAGE: $25k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $50k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $50k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE: $30k → 16%COMPREHENSIVE COMM CHILDCARE: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $80k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $30k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $30k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $30k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $30k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC: $30k → 16%SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK: $25k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $40k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $40k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $30k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS INC: $30k → 16%YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC: $30k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
KY
VA
TN
FL

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$10M · 115 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

115 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 83 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
84

Total granted

$10M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+9%

Still filing today

77%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CI
    Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
    9× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +2%
  • MC
    MindPeace Cincinnati
    5× · 2018–2025 · $300k · revenue +193%
  • LY
    LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES
    7× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • LA
    Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +46%
  • CR
    COVID-19 REGIONAL
    one grant, 2020 · $75k

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's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
2
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
3
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of Greater Lima Inc

United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.

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5
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
6
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
7
Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
8
Child & Adolescent Behavioral Health

We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…

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9
OhioGuidestone

To provide pathways for growth, achievement, and lifelong success.

Health
10
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
11
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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12
Advocates for Kids

Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential. Advocates for Kids envisions children achieving a clearer…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 backsteadyCharter and Independent Sch…Hospital Systems and Health…Cincinnati Community Founda…Regional Business ChambersUrban Neighborhood Redevelo…Christian Missionary and Ev…Early Childhood Care CentersCommunity Equity Organizati…Youth Sports LeaguesPerforming Arts Organizatio…Food Assistance & Emergency…Senior Residential CareCatholic Higher Education &…
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr20%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr15%20%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr20%40%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/150
the rest of the field
12%
1,014/8,263

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

147 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. 147 of the 218 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
141/147
Grantees still filing
103/147
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LEARNING GROVE INC — $210,000 · OtherFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $250,000 · Other+122 more — $5,639,683 · Other+122 moreLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $280,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SE…CINCINNATI WORKS — $210,000 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKSSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMMUNI…COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesCOMPREHENSIVE COMMU…YWCA of Greater Cincinnati — $130,500 · Human ServicesYWCA of Greater Cin…STEPPING STONES INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STONES INCCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $115,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Associat…BEECH ACRES — $107,500 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio — $100,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati Union Bethel — $100,000 · Human ServicesLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc — $75,000 · Human Services+15 more — $547,000 · Human Services+15 moreCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $450,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati I…CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $210,000 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI M…Visionaries and Voices — $145,000 · Arts & CultureVisionaries …Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $130,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati P…CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $107,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI S…ISPACE INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati Opera Association Inc — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF ART — $55,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $115,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreMindPeace Cincinnati — $300,000 · EducationMindPeace …Cincinnati Youth Collaborative — $231,000 · EducationCincinnati…OHIO VALLEY VOICES — $180,000 · EducationOHIO VALLE…SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER — $160,000 · EducationSPRINGER S…SOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC — $95,000 · EducationSOCIAL ENT…PARTNERSHIP FOR INNOVATION IN EDUCATION — $50,000 · EducationCINCINNATI CENTER FOR AUTISM — $40,000 · Education+6 more — $140,900 · Education+6 moreRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc — $180,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $130,000 · HealthCancer Family Care Inc — $95,000 · HealthMAY WE HELP INC — $55,000 · HealthNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS — $40,000 · HealthFrom Fatherless to Fearless — $35,000 · HealthTRISTATE TRAUMA NETWORK — $30,000 · HealthAUTISM CONNECTIONS — $30,000 · HealthNAMI OF SOUTHWEST OHIO — $27,500 · Health+2 more — $30,000 · HealthWELCOME HOUSE INC — $127,500 · Housing & ShelterBethany House Services Inc — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $110,000 · Housing & ShelterEQUINOX INC — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterHIBISCUS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF GREATER — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterPRICE HILL WILL — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $200,629 · PhilanthropyCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC — $155,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati — $65,000 · PhilanthropyEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $15,000 · Philanthropy
Other$6,099,683Human Services$2,155,000Arts & Culture$1,382,500Education$1,196,900Health$652,500Housing & Shelter$572,500Philanthropy$485,629

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts — $450,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMindPeace Cincinnati — $300,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $280,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $250,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Youth Collaborative — $231,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $210,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS — $210,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC — $210,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION — $200,629 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO VALLEY VOICES — $180,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc — $180,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetProKids — $180,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $180,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC — $180,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $160,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER — $160,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC — $155,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC — $150,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati — $145,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVisionaries and Voices — $145,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati — $130,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park — $130,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC — $130,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $130,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC — $127,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBethany House Services Inc — $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $120,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc — $120,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICE OF THE OHIO HUMANE SOCIETY DBA FAMILIESFORWARD — $115,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $115,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJoy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc — $110,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $107,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBEECH ACRES — $107,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBrighton Center Inc — $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Union Bethel — $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE AND TRAINING CENTER INC — $95,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCancer Family Care Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES — $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEQUINOX INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEaster Seals Tristate — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFound Village — $75,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCINCINNATI EARLY LEARNING CENTERS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFamily Nurturing Center of Kentucky — $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
  • Who funds MindPeace Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
  • Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
  • Who funds Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ProKids ↗
  • Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Visionaries and Voices ↗
  • Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
  • Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICE OF THE OHIO HUMANE SOCIETY DBA FAMILIESFORWARD ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
  • Who funds Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
  • Who funds Brighton Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗

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.

Andrew Jergens Founda…John a Schroth Family…Jack J Smith Jr Chari…Charles H Dater Found…The Greater Cincinnat…United Way of Greater…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Millstone FundCarol Ann and Ralph V…The Thomas J Emery Me…Sutphin Family Founda…Josephine S Russell C…
Andrew Jergens FoundationOH159.5× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Millstone Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · 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 Pfau Charitable 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Hibiscus Children's Center Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
63report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Pfau Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pfau Charitable Foundation 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 218 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.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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