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The Alpaugh Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2025still arriving
54
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$298kAnimals$264kPublic Benefit$176kReligion$160kEducation$138kSocial Science$105kPhilanthropy$101kHuman Services$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k43 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $256k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HERITAGE FOUNDATION$45,000
SPCA-CINCINNATI$40,000
CINCINNATI ECONOMIC ED & RES$28,000
CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM$25,000
BUCKEYE INSTITUTE$25,000
CINCINNATI ZOO SOCIETY$25,000
OLD ART BUILDING$20,000
CITY GOSPEL MISSION$17,000
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$10,500
SCPARTS FUND$10,000
CROSSROAD CHURCH$10,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$9,500
CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER$8,000
CINCINNATI OPERA$6,345
BEECH ACRES$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $65k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TALBERT HOUSE: $1k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $1k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $500 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $500 → 16%STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS: $500 → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $250 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $250 → 16%LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $250 → 16%STEPPING STONES: $350 → 16%BEECH ACRES: $20k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $15k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $10k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $6k → 16%BEECH ACRES: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $1k → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $250 → 16%TALBERT HOUSE: $250 → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $250 → 16%CINCINNATI WORKS: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 98 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

98 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

98
82

Total granted

$1.3M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+35%

Still filing today

61%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationEnvironmentHealthPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TH
    THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI
    6× · 2020–2025 · $141k · revenue +1%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +12%
  • TB
    The Buckeye Institute
    6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • CC
    CROSSROADS CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI - ECONOMICS CENTER FOR EDUCATION & RESEARCH
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
  • TF
    TAX FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Museum of American Finance

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…

—
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
Ohio State Bar Association

The ohio state bar association (the "association") is an unincorporated voluntary non-profit organization. the association was formed to promote justice and advance the interests of the legal profession.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Turner Farm Preservation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

121 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 121 of the 197 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/121
Grantees still filing
85/121
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY: $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAYThe Buckeye Institute: $97,500 · OtherThe Buckeye InstituteCINCINNATI ZOO SOCIETY: $95,850 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOO SOCIETYCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $72,462 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATESCROSSROAD CHURCH: $71,500 · OtherCROSSROAD CHURCHTHE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMIC CENTER: $66,500 · OtherTHE ALPAUGH FAMILY ECONOMIC CENTERCINCINNATI OPERA: $38,595 · OtherCINCINNATI ECONOMIC ED & RES: $28,000 · Other+120 more: $243,420 · Other+120 moreCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $100,250 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEU…TAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $30,600 · Arts & CultureTAFT MUSEUM OF A…MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMEDIA RESEARCH C…OLD ART BUILDING: $20,000 · Arts & CultureOLD ART BUILDINGClifton Cultural Arts Center: $8,250 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $8,100 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $12,575 · Arts & Culture+14 moreTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI: $141,200 · AnimalsTHE HAMILTON…AFTER THE FINISH LINE: $6,000 · AnimalsHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $5,500 · Animals+9 more: $5,775 · AnimalsTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $109,600 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAG…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $19,200 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WA…TAX FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Public BenefitTAX FOUNDAT…+5 more: $4,250 · Public BenefitBEECH ACRES: $56,250 · Human ServicesTALBERT HOUSE: $3,500 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,600 · Human ServicesPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $8,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $1,750 · Education+10 more: $3,550 · EducationCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $27,600 · EnvironmentLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · EnvironmentCARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $3,000 · EnvironmentLAKE LEELANAU LAKE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 · Environment+5 more: $2,050 · Environment
Other$813,827Arts & Culture$209,775Animals$158,475Public Benefit$151,050Human Services$65,350Education$41,800Environment$40,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI: $141,200 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $109,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $100,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $97,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $72,462 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBEECH ACRES: $56,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $30,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $27,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $19,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTAX FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetClifton Cultural Arts Center: $8,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER: $8,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $7,070 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER THE FINISH LINE: $6,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEELANAU CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $4,350 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI FIRE MUSEUM: $4,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $3,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPETS FOR PATIENTS: $2,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLAKE LEELANAU LAKE ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCincinnati Athletic Club: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASHLAND UNIVERSITY: $1,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cincinnati Tennis Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDE CAVEL FAMILY SIDS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFORT WORTH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNER FARM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI MUSEUM OF ATHLETICS: $1,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetNATIONAL CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE HAMILTON COUNTY SPCA INC DBA SPCA CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds The Buckeye Institute ↗
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
  • Who funds BEECH ACRES ↗
  • Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OLD ART BUILDING ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Clifton Cultural Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds AFTER THE FINISH LINE ↗
  • Who funds HELEN WOODWARD ANIMAL CENTER ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Greater Cincinnat…The Thomas J Emery Me…John a Schroth Family…Johnson Charitable Gi…Carol Ann and Ralph V…Millstone FundThe Frances R Luther …Charles H Dater Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Hcs FoundationThe Wohlgemuth Hersch…Robert a & Marian K K…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH54.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Hcs Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Alpaugh Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alpaugh Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Curry College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 197 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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