· Private foundation
Stillson Foundation Fifth Third Bank Na
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND HORSEM | $50,000 |
| 1N5 | $50,000 |
| LEARNING GROVE INC | $50,000 |
| STEPPING STONES INC | $50,000 |
| CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER | $50,000 |
| FOCUS ON YOUTH INC | $30,000 |
| MINDPEACE CINCINNATI | $30,000 |
| SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MUSIC EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH CINCINNATI INC | $25,000 |
| SWEET CHEEKS DIAPER BANK | $15,000 |
| CASA FOR CLERMONT KIDS | $15,000 |
| LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINNATI | $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 (FY21–25, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 10 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, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k 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
- SSSTEPPING STONES INC3× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +12%
- CGCOVERD GREATER CINCINNATI2× · 2023–2025 · $45k · revenue +9%
- LNLITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SSSCHEDULE SCHEDULE ATTACHEDone grant, 2019 · $70k
- ALAmerican Legacy Theatregraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +374% · 34% of their budget
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESone grant, 2022 · $50k
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 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 organization operates and provides quality childcare in a nurturing and learning environment in multiple locations.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
Unlocking the self-worth and potential of at-risk teens through the transformative power of art, a first-class environment and a character-building culture. Equipping at-risk teens with skills, credentials and pathways to employment.…
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The mission of school choice ohio is to protect and expand children's educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of k-12 education across the state.
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…
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
Advocates for Kids is committed to providing service and/or supporting organizations that serve children by providing experiences that empower them to realize their full potential. Advocates for Kids envisions children achieving a clearer…
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crayons and Beyond Inc and the most unlike its peers is MISSION2MOVE. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 12% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 30 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 CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND HORSEM HORSEMANSHIP ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Legacy Theatre ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Infant and Maternity Home ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE INC ↗
- Who funds COVERD GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK OF GREATER CINCINNATI DBA QUEEN CITY BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MindPeace Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION for MUSIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
- Who funds Forever Kings Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HEIGHTS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LEAD TRAINING ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION2MOVE ↗
- Who funds WESLEY CHAPEL MISSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds A KID AGAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR CLERMONT KIDS ↗
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 · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Millstone Fund · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Josephine S Russell Charitable · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Stillson Foundation Fifth Third Bank Na 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.