· Private foundation
The Dorothy B Francis Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of THE DOROTHY B FRANCIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $293k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS | $30,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| BRICK GARDENS | $18,000 |
| ALL DOGS GO HEAVEN | $15,000 |
| UCAN | $15,000 |
| CINTI RECYCLE REUSE HUB | $15,000 |
| FOUND VILLAGE | $15,000 |
| YOUR STORE QUEEN CITY | $15,000 |
| LADIES OF LEADERSHIP | $15,000 |
| LEAGUE OF ANIMAL WELFARE | $15,000 |
| JUMPSTART | $15,000 |
| ELEMENTZ | $15,000 |
| MILL CREEK ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| OAR | $15,000 |
| WESTERN WILDLIFE CORRIDOR | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% 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.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- CFCHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +7%
- AOARC OF APPALACHIA7× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +391%
- GUGREEN UMBRELLA5× · 2017–2022 · $67k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- UCUNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +60%
- 4P4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +13%
- ETEDUCATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
SAVE Ohio Pets is a non-profit whose mission is to reduce the homeless pet population in Central Ohio through community outreach and promoting spay/neuter, adoption, volunteering, and education. We operate a free, monthly vet care and…
Animal Rescue
We meet the immediate needs of animals in our community through individualized care, life saving solutions, and temporary shelter en-route to a safe, compatible home. we envision a community where all animals are valued, protected and have…
Rescue and adoption of animals
To reduce the number of homeless animals in Greene County, Oh through various programs.
Our mission is to serve the people and animals of Central Ohio by providing safe, temporary shelter and care for abandoned or otherwise homeless cats and dogs, and to reduce pet overpopulation by means of spay and neuter, education, and…
Purebred Rescue Organization of Ohio has been rescuing, rehabilitating, and rehoming companion animals for over twenty years. What started as a small foster-based rescue in Dayton, focused on purebred puppy mill releases and owner…
None
To be a resource as a no-kill pet rescue service
4 Paws Sake, Inc. is a group of volunteer (we have no paid employees) dog lovers whose mission is to rescue, provide sanctuary, and ultimately to re-home abandoned, stray and neglected dogs. We also assist dogs who, because of extenuating…
To care for the humane treatment of animals that are abandoned by owners and improve the welfare of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 Paws for Ability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Purrfect Friends Cat Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 79 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 CHILDHOOD FOOD SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds ARC OF APPALACHIA ↗
- Who funds GREEN UMBRELLA ↗
- Who funds MILL CREEK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN WILDLIFE CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds Elementz ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds CARACOLE INC ↗
- Who funds League for Animal Welfare ↗
- Who funds GREAT PARKS FOREVER ↗
- Who funds Brown County Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HIS HANDS EXTENDED SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Immigrant & Refugee Law Center ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART INC ↗
- Who funds Found Village ↗
- Who funds UNITED COALITION FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NORTHSIDE COMMUNITY URBAN REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OAK HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HELP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT FRIENDS CAT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Imago ↗
- Who funds MASLOW'S ARMY INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Glad House 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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · Josephine S Russell Charitable · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Pfau 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 Dorothy B Francis Charitable 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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