· Private foundation
Stella M Buerger Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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: 53% of STELLA M BUERGER CHARITABLE TRUST’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SETON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ELDER HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| HEARING SPEECH & DEAF CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE BEECHWOOD HOME | $5,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY VOICES | $5,000 |
| THE CARNEGIE THEATRE | $2,500 |
| OHIO RIVER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MOUNT ORB COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND | $2,500 |
| THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PROKIDS | $2,500 |
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, $13k) 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 14 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, 81% 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
- CNCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $38k · revenue +39%
- NKNORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +145%
- OVOHIO VALLEY VOICES6× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- NPNEW PATH CHILD & FAMILY SOLUTIONSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CICHANGINGGEARS INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- PCPREGNANCY CENTER WESTone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +2%
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.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
Creating lasting results that strengthen families and our community by guiding individuals from infancy to independence through comprehensive education, behavioral, and health services.
The Cincinnati Waldorf School educates the unfolding capacities of children by engaging the creative imagination of the mind, the spirit of the heart, and the skillful use of the hands. The community actively participates in creating an…
A trauma-informed Healthcare Organization, CHNK Behavioral Health creates Holistic Partnerships for Health and Wellness that are inclusive, innovative and inspiring.
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,…
Empowering women to break the cycles of poverty, addiction, and human trafficking.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
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…
To offer children and young adults a top quality program that develops, trains and competes as competitive swimmers year-round in a supportive and motivating enviroment that respects, challenges and nurtures them as athletes, students, and…
Creating leaders who, through the discovery of their own abilities, kindle the potential in others and better a dynamic world.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beechwood Home and the most unlike its peers is Mount Orab Community Playground Fund Inc. 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 32 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) — 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.
22 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. 22 of the 38 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 NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds ProKids ↗
- Who funds Cancer Family Care Inc ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Bethany House Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds CHANGINGGEARS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ORAB COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER WEST ↗
- Who funds Wave Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
- Who funds Ohio River Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGONFLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds GORMAN HERITAGE FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
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 · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · J Frederick & Helen B Vogel Trust · Agnes Nordloh Charitable 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 Stella M Buerger Charitable Trust 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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