· Private foundation
The Charles M Grant 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 $10k17 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| YOUNG SHAKESPEARE PLAYERS | $8,000 |
| GOLDEN RETRIEVER FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY | $5,000 |
| CLERMONT COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,500 |
| LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF CINCINNATI & HAMILTON COUNTY | $3,500 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK | $2,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $2,000 |
| ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LIVING ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED | $2,000 |
| STEPPING STONES | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +61%
- LELIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +49%
- LALiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- TITHE INDIAN HILL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $100k
- SCSYCAMORE COMMUNITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $10k
- HFHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +18%
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.
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
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To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The lancaster general health foundation is organized and operated to benefit, perform the functions of, or carry out the purposes of members of the healthcare system of lancaster general health, a non-profit corporation described in…
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
Commonspirit health foundation serves to operate in conformity with the mission, vision, and values of commonspirit health and to participate in collaborative efforts to enhance and improve the fundraising and grant-making efforts of all…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
To develop charitable gifts and resources dedicated to building healthier communities in southwest ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 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 — 3% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 52 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 FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE ENRICHING COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXMOOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwest Community Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG SHAKESPEARE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF MCHENRY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Pioneer Center for Human Services ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN RETRIEVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION EAST VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds The AKC Humane Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION FOUNDATION OF THE LAKE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVES ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friends of Saguaro National Park ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
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 · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Charles M Grant 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.