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Rhineland Foundation at a glance

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Rhineland Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$285k
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2021.

Arts & Culture$216kHuman Services$93kEducation$18kYouth Development$3kHealth$2kFood & Nutrition$1kPhilanthropy$600Religion$550Other$0
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ERIC STEINMAN FAMILY DAF$92,313
JOHN & JAN STEINMAN DAF$92,313
STEVE & SARAH STEINMAN DAF$92,313
Arts Wave$5,000
BEECHWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,560
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$300
CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS$200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–19, $425) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $25 → 14%THE POINT ARC: $200 → 11%THE POINT ARC: $200 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

SD
OH
KY
VA
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52k · 20 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2021, 16 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
25

Total granted

$52k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+53%

Still filing today

55%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $277k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CM
    CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $12k · revenue +9%
  • CI
    Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts
    3× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +2%
  • BE
    BEECHWOOD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CI
    COMP-U-DOPT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +286%
  • K
    KET
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • FT
    FT THOMAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
The Indianapolis Foundation Inc

To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.

Community Improvement
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
6
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

—
7
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
8
Cicp Foundation Inc

Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…

Community Improvement
9
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
10
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
11
The Dayton Art Institute

The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.

Arts & Culture
12
Columbus Medical Association Foundation

The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Knock Family Foundation Inc 10730 Omaha Trace. 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

24 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. 24 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STEVE & SARAH STEINMAN DAF: $92,313 · OtherSTEVE & SARAH STEINMAN DAFERIC STEINMAN FAMILY DAF: $92,313 · OtherERIC STEINMAN FAMILY DAFJOHN & JAN STEINMAN DAF: $92,313 · OtherJOHN & JAN STEINMAN DAF+28 more: $13,065 · OtherCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $12,211 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI…Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $12,000 · Arts & CultureCincinnati…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $7,350 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEU…+3 more: $225 · Arts & CultureBEECHWOOD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,560 · EducationFORT THOMAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,900 · EducationCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $2,000 · EducationBEECHWOOD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $300 · EducationCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $600 · PhilanthropyKNOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 10730 OMAHA TRACE: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $100 · PhilanthropyINTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 · ReligionTHE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $400 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25 · Human ServicesJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $200 · Public Benefit
Other$290,004Arts & Culture$31,786Education$12,760Philanthropy$1,200Religion$1,000Human Services$425Public Benefit$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $12,211 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $7,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEECHWOOD EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,560 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetFORT THOMAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,900 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMP-U-DOPT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKNOCK FAMILY FOUNDATION INC 10730 OMAHA TRACE: $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHI OMEGA FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrighton Center Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH FUND FOR KET INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Duke Energy FoundationThe Greater Cincinnat…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…George and Mary Jo Bu…Johnson Charitable Gi…Fidelity FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…
Duke Energy FoundationNC17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Fidelity Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Rhineland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rhineland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 49 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home