· Private foundation
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $371k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+8 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of Cincinnati | $8,228,288 |
| Rockwern Academy | $4,184,812 |
| Mayerson JCC | $2,910,335 |
| Jewish Family Service | $1,991,437 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,743,380 |
| Cincinnati Hebrew Day School | $1,494,250 |
| JVS - Careers | $301,500 |
| B'nai B'rith Youth Organization Inc | $250,000 |
| Jewish Discovery Center of Ohio Inc | $212,000 |
| Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati | $200,000 |
| Hillel of University of Cincinnati | $150,823 |
| Camp Livingston | $144,242 |
| Cincinnati Community Kollel | $100,000 |
| Greater Cincinnati Foundation | $100,000 |
| Cincinnati Opera Association | $75,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- YDYavneh Day School Association6× · 2020–2025 · $15M · revenue +90% · 48% of their budget
- JCJewish Community Center Of Cincinnati8× · 2018–2025 · $10M · revenue +61%
- CHCINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $8.2M · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HUHebrew Union College - JIRone grant, 2021 · $743k
- WFWEXNER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $135k · revenue +29%
- CFCenter for Jewish Living & Learning Incone grant, 2023 · $75k
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.
The purpose of Hillel is to be a center for enriching the lives of Jewish students in the Greater Cincinnati area and to strengthen Jewish identity through social and a broad range of programs and services in an atmosphere that is…
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Make Jewish life vibrant, accessible and secure in Columbus, Israel and around the world.
A social service agency, JFS strengthens lives and our diverse community by providing exceptional and transformational human services. Services include: Counseling, Case Management, Financial and Food Support, Home Care, Senior Services,…
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
Cincinnati Public Radio is the trusted, independent source of journalism, music and culture empowering a vibrant, engaged and informed community.
Make Jewish life vibrant, safe, and accessible in Columbus, Israel, and around the world.
Center of jewish life for undergraduate, graduate and professional students who attend 11 colleges and universities in greater cleveland. provides the means for students to celebrate their judaism through enriching cultural, educational,…
The mission of The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT) is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. Our vision is to awaken a lifelong love of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wexner Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 78 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 Jewish Federation of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Yavneh Day School Association ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Center Of Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Livingston Inc ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds The Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education ↗
- Who funds Hillel Foundation at Miami University ↗
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- Who funds WEXNER FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · Jewish Federation of Cincinnati · Jhsi Inc · Cambridge Charitable Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Ohio Child Care Resource and Referral Association · Jewish Communal Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati 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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