· Private foundation
The Erma a Bantz Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CINCINNATI EYE INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| CINCINNATI ASSOC FOR THE BLIND | $15,000 |
| 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY | $12,650 |
| PREVENT BLINDNESS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCClovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired3× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +13%
- OVOHIO VALLEY VOICES3× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +48%
- LALiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc2× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CClovernookone grant, 2020 · $20k
- LLUKE5ADVENTURESone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +24%
- THTHE HEALTHCARE CONNECTION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.
Residential & Habilitative Svs. Provide residential and habilitative services to adults with developmental disabilities
To empower the Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and to promote access to communication, services, and events in Central, Southern, and Northwest Ohio.
With a 150+ year history, Saint Joe's is a place where people with developmental disabilities and complex support needs find connection, dignity and joy. Our community is built on compassion and possibility where every person is seen,…
Abilities First is committed to providing comprehensive services and quality care to each child and adult with special needs to put their abilities first.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
The Arc of Vigo County is committed to providing advocacy, parent support and training, respite services for families who have a family member at home with a developmental disability, a supported employment service for persons with…
Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.
To empower people with disabilities through employment, services and advocacy.
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
The mission of Delta Gamma Center for Children with Visual Impairments is to help children who are blind or visually impaired reach their full potential through family-centeredm specialized family support.
Provide services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Chester and Lancaster counties.
Cleveland hearing and speech is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language and deaf services, education, and advocacy helping people connect through communication, regardless of ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 Paws for Ability Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds OHIO VALLEY VOICES ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds LUKE5ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTHCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds VISUALLY IMPARIED PRESCHOOL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Tennis Foundation ↗
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 · Spaulding Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Hcs Foundation · Robert a & Marian K Kennedy Charitable Trust · L & L Nippert Charitable Foundation Inc Attn Carter F Randolph Phd · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Ge Aerospace 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 Erma a Bantz 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.