· Private foundation
Sec Charitable Corporation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $150k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $325k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| DRUMLUMMON INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OSA CONSERVATION | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI SQUASH ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| RAPTOR INC | $20,000 |
| ANOVA CENTER FOR EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| CHATFIELD EDGE | $15,000 |
| PRO SENIORS INC | $15,000 |
| BOB MARSHALL WILDERNESS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SLEEPING BEAR DUNES | $10,000 |
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, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.
69 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 24 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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
- CPCincinnati Parks Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +10%
- SKSALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +24%
- GYGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION7× · 2018–2024 · $65k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SMST MARY'S SEMINARYone grant, 2021 · $200k
- OROPERATION RAMP IT UP FOR VETERANSone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -22%
- AFALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +31%
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.
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…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
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 conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz. 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 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 160 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 POVERELLO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Pro Seniors Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA FOOD BANK & COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CINCINNATI WOMAN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds RAPTOR INC ↗
- Who funds Emanuel Community Center DBA Cincinnati Squash Academy ↗
- Who funds LEELANAU CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RAMP IT UP FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHEMO-UNITY LLC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Sleeping Bear Dunes ↗
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 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Hcs Foundation · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust
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 Sec Charitable Corporation 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.
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trillium Family Services — 2% of income from government
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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