· Private foundation
Robert Gould Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CET | $55,000 |
| ASPEN VALLEY SKI AND SNOWBOARD CLUB | $45,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $30,000 |
| IMANI FAMILY LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| ASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $15,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDEN | $10,000 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $10,000 |
| PROKIDS | $10,000 |
| CREATURE CONSERVE | $10,000 |
| WYO WEST WARRIORS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OHIO RIVER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IN5 | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AVASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC7× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +84%
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +39%
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- TGThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundationone grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +16%
- FFOCUSone grant, 2017 · $35k
- PSPROGRESSIVE SENIOR CITZENS CLUBone grant, 2024 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
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.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
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…
Archive History of Community
Ensemble theatre of cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic over-the- rhine, dedicated to engaging, enriching and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premier productions, creating and…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Cooper Spur Race Team. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds CREATURE CONSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Historic Southwest Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MAY WE HELP INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS ↗
- Who funds BIG HORN EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Rosemary's Babies Co ↗
- Who funds GORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COVINGTON LADIES HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WYO WEST WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Charles Scott Riley III Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John Hauck Foundation Fifth Third Bank Na
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 Robert Gould Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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