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The Cincinnati Woman's Club 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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$23kHuman Services$23kHousing & Shelter$19kInternational$11kHealth$10kArts & Culture$5kCrime & Legal$5kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$389k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hope's Closet$8,000
Peaslee Neighborhood Center$8,000
Found House Interfaith Housing Network$8,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $24k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Refugee Connect: $11k → 16%Cincinnati Works: $5k → 16%Hope's Closet: $8k → 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.
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 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
Hope Ignites Cincinnati

Hope Ignites Cincinnati nurtures and guides motivated young people in need to become well-educated, career-ready men and women for others through its holistic, long-term residential and academy programming. The organization provides direct…

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2
Refugee Hope Partners Inc

To engage, equip, and encourage our refugee neighbors so that all may thrive.

Human Services
3
Cincinnati Youth Collaborative

Cincinnati Youth Collaborative ("CYC") empowers young people to overcome barriers and excel in education, career, and life.

Education
4
Refugee & Immigrant Transitions

Our mission is to welcome and partner with people who have sought refuge, employing strengths-based educational approaches and community supports so they may thrive in our shared communities.

Youth Development
5
Youth Empowerment Shelter

To provide youth in crisis a place of physical and emotional safety while assisting them to build positive relationships and develop their individual potentials.

Youth Development
6
Hope 4 Youth

To provide pathways to end youth homelessness.

Youth Development
7
Rahab House

Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…

Human Services
8
MindPeace Cincinnati

The mission of MindPeace is to ensure that every child and adolescent has access to an effective system of mental health and wellness.

Education
9
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
10
Choose to Win Transitional Housing

Transitional Housing Services

Housing & Shelter
11
Community Matters Cincinnati Inc

To build a thriving and more just community, Community Matters goes beyond the traditional nonprofit model by forming partnerships with our neighbors instead of viewing them only as clients to be provided a service. We believe our…

Human Services
12
City of Refuge Sacramento

City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Activities Beyond the Classroom; the most unlike its peers is Rothenberg Rooftop Garden. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RefugeeConnect: $11,250 · Human ServicesRefugeeConnectHOPE'S CLOSET INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesHOPE'S CLOSET INCCINCINNATI WORKS: $4,500 · Human ServicesCINCINNATI WORKSDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $9,000 · EducationDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCH…Activities Beyond the Classroom: $9,000 · EducationActivities Beyond the C…ROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN: $4,500 · EducationROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARD…Peaslee Neighborhood Center Inc: $8,000 · OtherPeaslee Neighborhood C…Sweet Cheeks Diaper BankTidal Babe Period Supplies Project: $4,500 · OtherSweet Cheeks Diaper Ba…Interfaith Hospitality Network: $4,500 · OtherInterfaith Hospitality…Cincinnati Woman's Club President's Project: $2,000 · OtherCincinnati Woman's Clu…Cincinnati Woman's Club (President's Club): $2,000 · OtherCincinnati Woman's Clu…Lydia's House Inc: $11,250 · Housing & ShelterLydia's Hou…Madis House Inc: $10,000 · HealthMadis Hous…Found House-Interfaith Housing Network: $8,000 · ReligionImmigrant & Refugee Law Center: $5,000 · Crime & LegalPROJECT YOGA INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$23,750Education$22,500Other$21,000Housing & Shelter$11,250Health$10,000Religion$8,000Crime & Legal$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRefugeeConnect: $11,250 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLydia's House Inc: $11,250 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMadis House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOHN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom: $9,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetImmigrant & Refugee Law Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT YOGA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetROTHENBERG ROOFTOP GARDEN: $4,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCINCINNATI WORKS: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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…Andrew Jergens Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…United Way of Greater…Johnson Charitable Gi…Ge Aerospace Foundati…William P Anderson Fo…Pfau Charitable Found…John a Schroth Family…Impact 100 IncThe Cincinnati Woman'…Marge & Charles J Sch…
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · Pfau Charitable Foundation · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Impact 100 Inc · The Cincinnati Woman's Club · Marge & Charles J Schott 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 Cincinnati Woman's Club Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cincinnati Woman's Club Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Cincinnati Woman's Club Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Cincinnati Woman's Club Foundation 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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