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The Bahl & Gaynor 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 $10k27 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $100,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE TRANSFIGURATION | $40,000 |
| XAVIER UNIVERSITY | $16,850 |
| ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEERS | $15,380 |
| DAV 5K | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,850 |
| CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| OHIO STATE BAR FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL | $6,000 |
| FC CINCINNATI | $5,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER | $4,500 |
| AFMDA | $4,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 18 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k 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
- XUXAVIER UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +5%
- TCThe Christ Hospital Foundation2× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +239%
- LYLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES3× · 2023–2025 · $7k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TWTRI-STATE WARBIRD MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $11k · revenue +27%
- AFABA FUND FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INCone grant, 2024 · $9k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
The mission of cincinnati christian university is to teach men and women to live by biblical principles and to equip and empower them with character, skills, insight, and vision to lead the church and to impact society for christ.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is La Soupe 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 49 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 55 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 XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds OHIO STATE BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MUSIC HALL ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE WARBIRD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER CINCINNATI INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BEECHWOOD HOME ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET HALL ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Bar Association ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ST JOSEPH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds THE CINCINNATI HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds CITYLINK 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 · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Hcs Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Duke Energy 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 & Gaynor 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.
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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