· Private foundation
Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of RUTH J & ROBERT A CONWAY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PINK RIBBON GIRLS | $25,000 |
| SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $20,000 |
| CARING PLACE OF CINCINNATI | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR RESPITE CARE | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $15,000 |
| MERCY NEIGHBORHOOD MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE | $10,000 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF MERCY FOR CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| ATHENAEUM OF OHIO | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR | $10,000 |
| ROSE GARDEN HOME MISSION | $10,000 |
| URSULINES OF BROWN COUNTY | $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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $455k · revenue +24%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $445k · revenue +67%
- SMSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $299k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- KCKATHLEEN CONWAY BELL FIDELITY CHARITABLEone grant, 2023 · $2.8M
- RAROBERT A CONWAY JR FIDELITY CHARITABLEone grant, 2023 · $2.8M
- JAJOSEPH A CONWAY FIDELITY CHARITABLEone grant, 2023 · $2.8M
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.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
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.
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.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
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,…
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Coverd Greater Cincinnati and the most unlike its peers is New York Public Radio. 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.
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 43 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.
91 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. 91 of the 148 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.
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- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL ↗
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- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI RECYCLING AND REUSE HUB ↗
- Who funds Optim-All Services ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHATFIELD EDGE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Kennedy Heights Arts Center ↗
- Who funds PINK RIBBON GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds BLOC MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRICE HILL WILL ↗
- Who funds THE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CISE Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Lydia's House Inc ↗
- Who funds Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROSE GARDEN MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CARING PLACE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds THE HILLSIDE TRUST ↗
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 · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Millstone Fund · Louise Taft Semple 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 Ruth J & Robert a Conway 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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