How much does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust give?

The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust reported 47 grants totaling $3,915,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 45 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Health (16%), Human Services (10%).

Who are The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($1.3M), Children's Hospital Medical Center ($1.3M), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($1.1M).

Does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation, The Thomas J Emery Memorial.

Where is The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust based?

The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust is based in OH.

Foundation Dossiers

Ohio · Private foundation

The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 47
Grants FY2025: 33
Organizations funded FY2024: 18%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 33 to 45; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $56M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	47	$3.9M	34%
FY2024	33	$3.0M	18%
FY2023	39	$2.4M	36%
FY2022	42	$2.9M	17%
FY2021	44	$2.5M	27%
FY2020	45	$2.4M	51%
FY2019	36	$1.7M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8.8MHealth$2.9MHuman Services$1.8MEducation$1.4MEnvironment$1.0MCommunity Improvement$635kFood & Nutrition$610kAnimals$490kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts	$1,345,000	7	2%
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$1,300,000	4	0%
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$1,100,000	7	0%
Taft Museum of Art	$975,000	7	2%
Cincinnati Museum Center	$885,000	7	1%
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc	$600,000	6	1%
Freestore Foodbank Inc	$490,000	6	0%
Xavier University	$475,000	7	0%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati	$450,000	4	0%
Cincinnati Nature Center	$425,000	6	3%

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All grantees of The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts	$1,345,000	7	2%
Children's Hospital Medical Center	$1,300,000	4	0%
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra	$1,100,000	7	0%
Taft Museum of Art	$975,000	7	2%
Cincinnati Museum Center	$885,000	7	1%
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc	$600,000	6	1%
Freestore Foodbank Inc	$490,000	6	0%
Xavier University	$475,000	7	0%
Zoological Society of Cincinnati	$450,000	4	0%
Cincinnati Nature Center	$425,000	6	3%
Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated	$325,000	7	0%
The Seven Hills School	$325,000	4	0%
Cincinnati Memorial Hall Society	$320,000	7	18%
Episcopal Retirement Homes Inc	$300,000	5	0%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation	$300,000	4	0%
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc	$290,000	6	1%
Cincinnati Arts Association	$280,000	6	0%
Art Opportunities Inc	$265,000	4	1%
Cincinnati Musical Festival Association	$260,000	3	4%
YWCA of Greater Cincinnati	$250,000	5	1%
Cincinnati Museum Association	$250,000	4	0%
Stepping Stones Inc	$185,000	5	1%
Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc	$160,000	5	1%
The Christ Hospital Foundation	$150,000	3	1%
Crayons and Beyond Inc	$150,000	6	0%
Cincinnati Landmark Productions	$150,000	5	2%
Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired	$145,000	5	0%
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati	$125,000	2	2%
Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsem Horsemanship	$125,000	4	7%
Green Umbrella	$115,000	2	2%
Cincinnati Opera Association Inc	$105,000	2	1%
Interlochen Center for the Arts	$105,000	4	0%
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company	$100,000	4	1%
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio	$100,000	4	0%
Clifton Cultural Arts Center	$100,000	1	6%
The Hillside Trust	$100,000	5	8%
Easter Seals Tristate	$100,000	1	1%
Hyde Park Multi-Service Center for Older Adults	$100,000	2	9%
American Legacy Theatre	$100,000	1	15%
Northern Kentucky Symphony	$95,000	3	7%
Kennedy Heights Arts Center	$90,000	2	1%
La Soupe Inc	$85,000	3	2%
Keep Cincinnati Beautiful Inc	$80,000	2	2%
Ohio River Foundation	$75,000	2	7%
Fernside Inc a Center for Grieving Children	$75,000	3	6%
Art Academy of Cincinnati	$75,000	4	0%
Cardinal Land Conservancy	$50,000	1	9%
Cincinnati Center City Development Corp	$50,000	1	0%
Junior League of Cincinnati	$50,000	1	15%
Redwood School & Rehabilitation Inc	$50,000	1	1%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati	$50,000	1	0%
Manifest Creative Research Gallery	$50,000	1	2%
The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education	$50,000	1	0%
America's River Roots Experience	$50,000	1	8%
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati	$50,000	1	1%
Life Learning Center Inc	$50,000	1	3%
The Wyoming Fine Arts Center	$50,000	1	10%
Save the Animals Foundation	$40,000	3	2%
Price Hill Will	$35,000	1	n/a
Mutual Dance Theatre and Arts Centers	$30,000	1	7%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Butler County Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Fotofocus Cincinnati	$25,000	1	1%
Gorman Heritage Farm Foundation	$25,000	1	2%
The Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center	$25,000	1	1%
Rothenberg Rooftop Garden	$25,000	1	15%
Music Resource Center - Cincinnati	$25,000	1	7%
Northern Kentucky Childrens Law Center Inc	$25,000	1	2%
Boy Scouts of America Council 438 Dan Beard	$25,000	1	1%
Springer School and Center	$25,000	1	0%
Behringer Crawford Museum	$25,000	1	4%
Elementz	$25,000	1	n/a
The Mercantile Library	$25,000	1	1%
Young Mens Christian Association of Defiance County Ohio	$20,000	1	1%
Mindful Moment	$15,000	1	3%
Bake Me Home	$10,000	1	n/a
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 73.

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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.

Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr FoundationOH80.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Nlt Foundation Inc · Josephine S Russell Charitable

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.

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About The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust

How much does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust give?: The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust reported 47 grants totaling $3,915,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 45 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Health (16%), Human Services (10%).
Who are The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ($1.3M), Children's Hospital Medical Center ($1.3M), Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra ($1.1M).
Does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation, Louise Taft Semple Foundation, The Thomas J Emery Memorial.
Where is The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust based?: The Frances R Luther Charitable Trust is based in OH.