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Rosenthal Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK | $210,000 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF GREATER CINTI | $200,000 |
| CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER | $200,000 |
| HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL | $200,000 |
| FREESTORE FOOD BANK | $130,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SW OHIO | $100,000 |
| FIRST STEP HOME | $100,000 |
| WOMEN HELPING WOMEN | $75,000 |
| WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS | $75,000 |
| HER CINCINNATI | $75,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $50,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $690k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k 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
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +50%
- TFTHE FIRST STEP HOME INC6× · 2018–2024 · $420k · revenue +22%
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC6× · 2019–2024 · $420k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CMCINCINNATI MUSIC HALLone grant, 2019 · $202k
- HHHOME HOUSING OPPORTUNITY MADE EQUALone grant, 2021 · $200k
- LSLA SOUPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +136%
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.
Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
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.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Harpswell Foundation. 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 48 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 65 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 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Contemporary Arts Center ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST STEP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN HELPING WOMEN ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES MADE EQUAL OF GREATER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE RENTER EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORKING IN NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OWNERSHIP CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI IN ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL MOMENT ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI RECYCLING AND REUSE HUB ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Abortion Fund of Ohio ↗
- Who funds THE HARPSWELL 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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Duke Energy 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 Rosenthal Family 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.
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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