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Schulzinger-Lucas Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADATH ISRAEL | $3,580 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $1,600 |
| ARIZONA MUSIC FEST | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $275 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY CLUB | $250 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $250 |
| CET | $250 |
| CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER | $180 |
| LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES | $150 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $100 |
| CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND V | $100 |
| JEEP THE ARTHUR AND EDITH SCHREIBE | $100 |
| AMERICAN ART SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $100 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY | $100 |
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, $3k) 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480 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
- CMCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
- AMARIZONA MUSICFEST INC3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · revenue +74%
- LYLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- AEALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +77%
- HHHOLOCAUST HUMANITIES CENTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
- PCPHOENIX COMMUNITY KOLLEL INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To further jewish historical education among youths
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
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…
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
For 124 years, the toledo museum of art has offered free admission to one of the world's great art collections housed in its greek revival main building and the glass pavilion. the museum has an extensive education program, offering…
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
The mission of the cincinnati symphony orchestra is to seek and share inspiration.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 54 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 47 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 MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY CLUB ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Schulzinger Frankel Family Foundation · Friedlander Family Fund · Building Healthy Lives Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati 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 Schulzinger-Lucas 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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