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Spaulding Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Animals$3.0MHealth$1.2MHuman Services$944kHousing & Shelter$335kFood & Nutrition$235kReligion$138kCrime & Legal$125kYouth Development$83kEmployment$60kOther$2.1M
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $854k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$21,165
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden$500,000
NewPath Child & Family Solutions$75,000
Serenity Recovery Network$50,000
Family Nurturing Center$50,000
Freestore Foodbank$30,000
PLAN of Southwest Ohio$30,000
Beech Acres Parenting Center$30,000
EDGE Teen Center$30,000
Stepping Stones$30,000
Found House Interfaith Housing Network$30,000
Assistance League of Greater Cincinnati$27,500
Last Mile Food Rescue$25,000
Epilepsy Alliance Ohio$25,000
Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired$25,000
Springer School and Center$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $944k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Youth Encouragement Services: $25k → 11%Circle Tail: $25k → 6%Circle Tail Inc: $20k → 6%Children's Home of Northern Kentucky: $50k → 11%Focus on Youth: $25k → 12%Focus on Youth: $16k → 12%Pause for Parents Play for Kids: $20k → 12%Care Center of Loveland: $13k → 9%Lighthouse Youth Services: $25k → 16%The Ion Center for Violence Prevention: $20k → 11%Care Center of Loveland: $5k → 9%First Step Home: $25k → 16%Samaritan Car Care Clinic: $20k → 11%Lighthouse Youth Services: $25k → 16%Lighthouse Youth Services: $20k → 16%Children's Home of Cincinnati: $30k → 16%Madisonville Education and Assistance Center: $15k → 16%Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired: $20k → 16%Clovernook Center for the Blind & Visually Impaired: $16k → 16%Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled: $25k → 16%LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEDEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $25k → 16%Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses: $20k → 16%Ken Anderson Alliance: $25k → 16%Stepping Stones: $30k → 16%Stepping Stones: $25k → 16%Santa Maria CommunityServices: $50k → 16%Beech Acres Parenting Center: $30k → 16%Valley Interfaith Community Resource Center: $20k → 16%Valley Interfaith CommunityResource Center: $4k → 16%Forever Kings: $25k → 16%New Life Furniture Bank: $20k → 16%New Life Furniture: $15k → 16%Cincinnati Association for theBlind & Visually Impaired: $30k → 16%Beech Acres Parenting Center: $30k → 16%Beech Acres Parenting Center: $30k → 16%YWCA Greater Cincinnati: $25k → 16%Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired: $25k → 16%Cincinnati Union Bethel: $25k → 16%Cincinnati Works: $10k → 16%Cincinnati Works: $10k → 16%The Healing Center: $10k → 16%Cancer Support Community: $15k → 16%Elizabeth's New Life Center: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.8M · 74 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
51

Total granted

$6.8M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterReligionFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther

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

  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI
    5× · 2021–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +35%
  • FF
    FREESTORE FOODBANK INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +3%
  • JH
    Joseph House Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • BH
    Bethany House
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • CH
    Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • TI
    TRANSITIONS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Elizabeth Seton Housing Corporation

Elizabeth Seton Housing Corporation provides housing for adults with developmental disabilities who have complex support needs in small residential home environments. The Corporation is operated in connection with the mission of St. Joseph…

Human Services
2
Cincinnati's Optimum Residential Environments Inc

Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities

Health
3
Clermont Counseling Center

To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.

Health
4
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
5
Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio

Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio serves and empowers people through God's love in their times of vulnerability. We do so through a full range of local services that engage the community in building solidarity.

Human Services
6
Recovery Centers Inc

To assist women in achieving recovery from addiction and behavioral health problems.

Health
7
Pathways Counseling Center Inc

Community Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Alcoholism Services.

Education
8
Cincinnati Center for Autism

We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.

Education
9
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
10
The Cincinnati Health Network Inc

The cincnnati health network (chn) is a grantee for the health care for the homeless program in the greater cincinnati area and operates as a federally qualified health center. the chn is also the ryan white part c grantee and provides…

Health
11
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

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,…

Human Services
12
House of Hope for Recovery Inc

Rehabilitation of adult alcoholics and drug addicts.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lighthouse Youth Services and the most unlike its peers is Mustang Journey. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAt-Risk Youth Residential C…Diverse Support Organizatio…Animal Shelter and RescueFaith-Based Emergency Assis…Senior Residential CareHospital Systems and Health…Addiction Recovery & Reside…Affordable Rental HousingBehavioral Health ServicesUrban Neighborhood Redevelo…Employee Benefit TrustsEducation Scholarships & Su…Cincinnati Cultural & Commu…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%4%<5yr15%9%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr15%31%35–55yr15%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr18%4%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr15%59%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/105
the rest of the field
13%
809/6,154

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.

04the grantee network

105 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. 105 of the 137 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/105
Grantees still filing
73/105
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $3,039,500 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATICENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS — $120,000 · Other+64 more — $2,241,074 · Other+64 moreJoseph House Inc — $125,000 · HealthJoseph House IncCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC — $105,000 · HealthCENTER FOR RESPI…THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $90,000 · HealthTHE DRAGONFLY FO…Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc — $75,000 · HealthRedwood School &…Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services — $75,000 · HealthGreater Cincinna…SERENITY CONSULTANTS INC — $75,000 · HealthSERENITY CONSULT…Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc — $60,000 · HealthThe Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation — $58,665 · HealthMILESTONES INC — $55,000 · HealthPLAN OF SOUTHWEST OHIO INC — $54,000 · HealthSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc — $52,000 · HealthNAMI OF SOUTHWEST OHIO — $50,000 · Health+16 more — $362,500 · Health+16 moreBEECH ACRES — $90,000 · Human ServicesBEECH ACRESLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $70,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE Y…Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $55,000 · Human ServicesCincinnati A…STEPPING STONES INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesSTEPPING STO…Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLE TAIL INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS ON YOUTH INC — $41,000 · Human ServicesClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired — $36,000 · Human ServicesNEW LIFE FURNITURE BANK — $35,000 · Human Services+18 more — $366,900 · Human Services+18 moreWELCOME HOUSE INC — $80,000 · Housing & ShelterCARACOLE INC — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterBethany House Services Inc — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterLydia's House Inc — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterOVER THE RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $150,000 · Food & NutritionLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE — $75,000 · Food & NutritionJoshua's Place — $10,000 · Food & NutritionFound House-Interfaith Housing Network — $55,000 · ReligionBLOC MINISTRIES INC — $37,700 · ReligionCAIN CINCY — $25,000 · ReligionINTERCHURCH ORGANIZATION INC — $20,000 · Religion
Animals$3,039,500Other$2,361,074Health$1,237,165Human Services$943,900Housing & Shelter$335,000Food & Nutrition$235,000Religion$137,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI — $3,039,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJoseph House Inc — $125,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS — $120,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR RESPITE CARE INC — $105,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBEECH ACRES — $90,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST JOSEPH HOME INC — $76,548 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetRedwood School & Rehabilitation Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Nurturing Center of Kentucky — $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSERENITY CONSULTANTS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCARACOLE INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $67,500 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI — $65,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation — $58,665 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMILESTONES INC — $55,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetFound House-Interfaith Housing Network — $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTENDER MERCIES INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPPING STONES INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBethany House Services Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPLAN OF SOUTHWEST OHIO INC — $54,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetFound Village — $53,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc — $52,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGER SCHOOL AND CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCINCINNATI THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND HORSEM HORSEMANSHIP — $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGlad House Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI OF SOUTHWEST OHIO — $50,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTRANSITIONS INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSt Rita School For The Deaf — $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCIRCLE TAIL INC — $45,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CINCINNATI — $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cincinnati — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO — $42,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOCUS ON YOUTH INC — $41,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMAY WE HELP INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati — $40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…John a Schroth Family…Sutphin Family Founda…United Way of Greater…Millstone FundElsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Johnson Charitable Gi…Marge & Charles J Sch…Pfau Charitable Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…Carol Ann and Ralph V…The Thomas J Emery Me…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH125.4× affinity84 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Millstone Fund · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial

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 Spaulding 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Spaulding Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Spaulding Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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