· Private foundation
The Carl H and Edyth B Lindner 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
- $250k+13 grants · $23M
Anchored by a single position — about 94% of reported assets are held in American Financial Group Inc Common Stock.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000,160 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION | $5,000,110 |
| JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $5,000,000 |
| FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY | $2,000,145 |
| CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,129 |
| CLEVELAND FOUNDATION | $1,000,069 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $1,000,030 |
| BACK 2 BACK MINISTRIES | $1,000,000 |
| CITY GOSPEL MISSION | $900,000 |
| WORLD SPORTS INC | $460,000 |
| HORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH | $380,000 |
| CALL OF LOVE | $350,000 |
| BACK 2 BACK MINISTRIES | $250,000 |
| CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $200,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE INC | $200,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +39% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $9.4M · revenue +20%
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS2× · 2023–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +7%
- CACraig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope3× · 2017–2022 · $5.3M · revenue +48%
Funded once
- MHMUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INCone grant, 2019 · $1.6M · revenue -100% · 58% of their budget
- TNTHE NAVIGATORSone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- NLNEW LIFE MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -10%
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
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.
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…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
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 specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
The corporation's mission is to educate, advance, and inform public discourse about the nonprofit sector and to provide news, insight, and professional development services to professionals involved in nonprofit and philanthropic…
Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…
Cicp foundation, inc. (the foundation) operates exclusively for the benefit of and carries out the mission of central indiana corporate partnership, inc. (cicp) by engaging in and supporting activities in furtherance of purposes that are…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Mobilizing resources by inspiring biblical generosity in the greater austin, texas area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Christian Virtue and the most unlike its peers is Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 44 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 JOHNSON CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HALL REVITALIZATION COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE ↗
- Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALL OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF COMPASSIONATE AMERICAN ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Psalms Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Serving Your Purpose Inc · The Frances and Craig Lindner Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · 100 Times Foundation Corporation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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 Carl H and Edyth B Lindner 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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