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The Bahl Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAFT MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $22,500 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KINDERVELT #50 | $15,000 |
| INDIAN HILL BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION | $14,250 |
| WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CALVERT SCHOOL | $8,500 |
| CINCINNATI BALLET | $2,500 |
| THE PROTESTANT CONGREGATION OF OCEAN REEF | $2,000 |
| XAVIER JESUIT ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| CARDINAL PACELLI CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| OUR LORD CHRIST THE KING PARISH | $1,500 |
| LADD INC | $1,100 |
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, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
29 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BHBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +174%
- OROCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +226%
- CCCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $88k · revenue +20%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +75%- LCLINDNER CENTER FOR HOPEone grant, 2019 · $8k
- TCThe Christ Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +192%
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.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Educate students by linking knowledge to professional practice.
Our mission is to operate, maintain, and oversee an independent college of art and design.
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…
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
See Disclosure Above.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Ligonier Fencing Club 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 47 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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 46 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 OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL CENTER AT OCEAN REEF INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds INDIAN HILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER FENCING CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
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 · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Frances and Craig Lindner Foundation · The Oliver Family Foundation · The Heidt Family Foundation · Williams Foundation · Hcs Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Farmer Family Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · The Off Family Foundation
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 The Bahl Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% 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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