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The Charles L Shor Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.7MHuman Services$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.9MEducation$1.0MReligion$920kScience & Tech$816kArts & Culture$722kEmployment$373kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $946k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$32,150
Median grant
7
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING$500,000
SOUTHERN OHIO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE$176,000
CINCINNATI STATE FOUNDATION$130,000
IVY TECH FOUNDATION$126,500
CINCINNATI YOUTH COLLABORATIVE$125,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PA & EASTERN OH$105,511
AGAPE THERAPEUTIC RIDING RES$80,000
UC BARRETT CANCER CENTER$75,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE$68,000
HOPE MEADOWS FOUNDATION$60,000
Individual grant recipient$37,560
PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY$32,150
PAW IN HAND PROJECT$31,108
UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI$25,000
JEWISH FEDERATION CINCINNATI$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $250 → 16%KIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA INC: $50k → 16%4 PAWS FOR ABILITY: $5k → 9%ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $50k → 15%LIFE LEARNING CENTER: $150k → 11%LOVESOME STABLES INC: $20k → 13%RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN: $50k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $25k → 11%LOVESOME STABLES INC: $16k → 13%LIFE LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 11%LIFE LEARNING CENTER: $6k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $5k → 11%LIFE LEARNING CENTER: $2k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $850k → 16%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $500k → 16%THE CHILDRENS HOME OF CINCINNATI: $500k → 16%PAW IN HAND PROJECT: $31k → 16%PAW IN HAND PROJECT: $15k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $7k → 16%BLACK AND WHITE CANCER SURVIVORS FOUNDATION: $50k → 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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
KY
NC
DC
TX
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 33 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
70

Total granted

$6.0M
$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+30%

Still filing today

48%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • TC
    The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio
    3× · 2019–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +51%
  • EA
    EPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO
    4× · 2017–2023 · $320k · revenue +68%
  • MU
    Miami University Foundation
    2× · 2017–2019 · $250k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CHARLES L SHOR DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $560k
  • IO
    IMAGES OF EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2018 · $526k
  • Purdue Research Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $316k · revenue +21%
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
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
3
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
4
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Family Service of the Cincinnati Area

A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…

Human Services
6
Ohio Justice and Policy Center

To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.

Civil Rights
7
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
8
Cicp Foundation Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Strategies to End Homelessness Inc

Strategies to End Homelessness leads a coordinated community effort to end homelessness in Greater Cincinnati.

Human Services
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
12
Innovation Ohio

Innovation Ohio is a catalyst for progressive policy and grassroots activity that improves the lives of Ohios working families.

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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 Hillel Foundation at Miami University. 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

47 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. 47 of the 117 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
39/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEVELAND CLINIC: $1,525,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICTHE CHARLES L SHOR DONOR ADVISED FUND: $560,000 · OtherTHE CHARLES L SHOR DONOR ADVISED FUNDIMAGES OF EXCELLENCE: $525,752 · OtherIMAGES OF EXCELLENCESOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING: $500,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERINGNEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCH: $433,150 · OtherNEW PROSPECT BAPTIST CHURCHEPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO: $319,535 · Other+81 more: $2,598,215 · Other+81 moreThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $1,850,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of …Life Learning Center Inc: $167,640 · Human ServicesLife Learning Center In…+10 more: $325,088 · Human Services+10 moreJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $675,000 · PhilanthropyJewish Fede…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $310,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERS…+2 more: $27,000 · PhilanthropyPurdue Research Foundation: $315,883 · EducationPurdue Re…Miami University Foundation: $250,000 · EducationMiami Uni…Cincinnati Youth Collaborative: $175,000 · EducationCincinnat…IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $126,500 · EducationIVY TECH …+4 more: $53,650 · Education+4 moreIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION: $205,000 · EmploymentEmpowering Epilepsy: $131,625 · HealthMCORE Foundation: $10,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$6,461,652Human Services$2,342,728Philanthropy$1,137,000Education$921,033Employment$205,000Health$141,625Arts & Culture$111,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $1,850,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetJewish Federation of Cincinnati: $675,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetEPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO: $319,535 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $315,883 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $310,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION: $205,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCincinnati Youth Collaborative: $175,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLife Learning Center Inc: $167,640 over 4y, 10% of budgetEmpowering Epilepsy: $131,625 over 1y, 43% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $126,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHope Meadows Foundation: $95,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetHillel Foundation at Miami University: $55,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI: $51,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKELLY YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPaw In Hand Project Inc: $46,218 over 2y, 96% of budgetLOVESOME STABLES INC: $36,620 over 2y, 17% of budgetPEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC: $32,150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConservative Partnership Institute: $28,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JEFF RUBY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMCORE Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCOALITION FOR A PROSPEROUS AMERICA INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER SOUTHWESTERN OHIO INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCISE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYavneh Day School Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO CPA FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetShelterhouse Volunteer Group Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINDEN GROVE SCHOOL: $150 over 1y, 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 Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY ALLIANCE OHIO ↗
  • Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
  • Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds IMPACT SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ↗
  • Who funds Life Learning Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Empowering Epilepsy ↗
  • Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hope Meadows Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Hillel Foundation at Miami University ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds KIDS' VOICE OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds ENCOMPASS CONNECTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BLACK AND WHITE CANCER SURVIVORS FOUNDAT ↗

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…Johnson Charitable Gi…Carol Ann and Ralph V…United Way of Greater…Robert H & Susan F Ca…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Millstone FundCharles H Dater Found…John a Schroth Family…Matthew 25 Ministries…Pfau Charitable Found…Farmer Family Foundat…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH39.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Matthew 25 Ministries Inc · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation

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 Charles L Shor Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles L Shor Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
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    How do I get to The Charles L Shor Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Charles L Shor Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 117 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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