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The Joe Burrow Foundation

To provide resources and support to the underprivileged and underserved.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$195k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$1.1MHealth$467kEducation$346kArts & Culture$215kHuman Services$209kYouth Development$140kReligion$140kRecreation & Sports$130kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $1,035,915, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,187,887 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $151,972 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $343k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $652k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$455k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA SOUPE INC$195,024
THREE O'CLOCK PROJECT$150,000
NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$132,000
HOCKING COLLEGE$105,000
NCH FOUNDATION$70,000
BLOC MINISTRIES INC$47,824
FTS CHARITY$25,000
SUPERSEEDS$20,000
GOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK OF ROSS COUNTY INC$20,000
RESTAURANT SUPPLY LLC$15,067
THE OHIO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
DIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC$15,000
TIKKUN FARM INC$15,000
YOU AREN'T ALONE PROJECT INC$10,000
HOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $358k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BELPRE AREA MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 15%MIGHTY MOMS: $174k → 13%INTEGRATED SERVICES FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $10k → 15%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS ATHENS: $10k → 22%TALBERT HOUSE: $20k → 16%FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICE CENTER: $15k → 19%OPENING DOORS A LOUISIANA NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50k → 19%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $35k → 16%COMMUNITY MATTERS CINCINNATI INC: $10k → 16%ISAIAH 55 INC: $25k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$798k · 3 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
42

Total granted

$798k
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $633k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • LS
    LA SOUPE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $537k · revenue +628%
  • TO
    THREE OCLOCK PROJECT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $178k · revenue -31% · 48% of their budget
  • BM
    BLOC MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $83k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • MM
    Mighty Moms
    one grant, 2023 · $174k · revenue -13% · 44% of their budget
  • OV
    OHIO VALLEY MUSEUM OF DISCOVERYINC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -72% · 49% of their budget
  • M
    mywhy
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Freestore Foodbank Inc

Improve lives by eliminating hunger in partnership with our community.

Food & Nutrition
2
Heart Food Pantry

Modeling god's love, heart nourishes hungry neighbors with healthy nutritious food today, connects them to life building resources for tomorrow so they can flourish for a lifetime

Food & Nutrition
3
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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4
Feed the Kids Columbus Inc

Feed The Kids Columbus strives to ensure food insecure children in Central Ohio have access to nutritious meals and snacks so they are able to learn and grow. There are as many as 12 million children in the United States who are at risk of…

Food & Nutrition
5
Cain Cincy

Tranforms lives inspiring hope by providing nutritious food,crisis assistance,resources and compassion that respects human dignity building a more vibrant community. feeding bodies and souls through its choice food pantry,weekly community…

Religion
6
Childhood Food Solutions

The mission of childhood food solutions is to develop solutions for childhood food insecurity that can be applied in a community, tested for effectiveness and duplicated in other communities.

Food & Nutrition
7
Mid-Ohio Foodbank

Mid-Ohio Foodbanks mission is to end hunger one nourishing meal at a time while co-creating communities where everyone thrives.

—
8
Hoosier Families Inc

Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…

Human Services
9
Every Child Succeeds

Every Child Succeeds is based on a strong scientific foundation demonstrating that a nurturing and stimulating environment in the first 1,000 days of life promotes optimal brain growth, cognitive development, psycho-social adjustment,…

Human Services
10
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

Advocate for early childhood social & economic development and professionals who work with children and their families to advance this mission.

Human Services
11
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
12
Little Chefs Big Change

The mission of Little Chefs, Big Change (LCBC) is to get kids excited about food that's good for both people and the planet. We do this by teaching affordable and fun plant-focused cooking and increasing access to healthy foods in schools…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Blue Line Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Front Yard Bikes. 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

64 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. 64 of the 78 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
32/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA SOUPE INC: $536,756 · Food & NutritionLA SOUPE INCFTS CHARITY: $25,000 · Food & NutritionGOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK OF ROSS COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $15,000 · Food & NutritionHOCKING COLLEGE: $105,000 · OtherHOCKING COLLEGENATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $70,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INCKENTON COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Other29 11 ACADEMY: $45,000 · OtherFEED THE HUNGRY PROJECT: $45,000 · OtherFATHERS ON A MISSION (FOAM): $38,000 · OtherBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $50,000 · OtherSON OF A SAINT: $50,000 · OtherYour Store of the Queen City: $40,000 · OtherAPPALACHIAN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC NETWORKS INC: $40,000 · OtherBLOC MINISTRIES INC: $82,824 · OtherBLOC MINISTRIES INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherProKids: $40,000 · Other+26 more: $329,867 · Other+26 moreNationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $132,000 · HealthNationwide Chil…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $84,626 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSP…From Fatherless to Fearless: $40,000 · HealthFrom Fatherless…Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: $35,000 · HealthGreater Cincinn…INTERACT FOR CHANGE: $25,000 · HealthINTERACT FOR CH…HOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Health+7 more: $66,000 · Health+7 moreMighty Moms: $173,827 · Human ServicesMighty MomsOPENING DOORS A LOUISIANA NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesOPENING DOORS…The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $35,000 · Human ServicesThe Children'…ISAIAH 55 INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesISAIAH 55 INCTALBERT HOUSE: $20,000 · Human ServicesTALBERT HOUSECENTER FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES: $14,856 · Human Services+4 more: $39,800 · Human Services+4 moreTHREE OCLOCK PROJECT: $178,000 · EducationTHREE OCLOC…Activities Beyond the Classroom: $40,000 · EducationActivities …ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $25,000 · EducationALLIANCE FO…SuperSeeds: $20,000 · EducationSuperSeedsThe Ohio University Foundation: $15,000 · EducationNEW LEAF KITCHEN: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE MENTORS FOR KIDS INC: $10,000 · EducationOHIO VALLEY MUSEUM OF DISCOVERYINC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureMIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WALLS PROJECT: $15,000 · Arts & Culturemywhy: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsBREC FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Recreation & Sports
Food & Nutrition$596,756Other$1,025,691Health$402,626Human Services$358,483Education$298,000Arts & Culture$215,000Recreation & Sports$130,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA SOUPE INC: $536,756 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHREE OCLOCK PROJECT: $178,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetMighty Moms: $173,827 over 1y, 44% of budgetOHIO VALLEY MUSEUM OF DISCOVERYINC: $150,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetNationwide Children's Hospital Inc: $132,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetmywhy: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $84,626 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOC MINISTRIES INC: $82,824 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetMIGHTY CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetSON OF A SAINT: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPENING DOORS A LOUISIANA NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFEED THE HUNGRY PROJECT: $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetYour Store of the Queen City: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrom Fatherless to Fearless: $40,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetActivities Beyond the Classroom: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetProKids: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC NETWORKS INC: $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGreater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREC FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetFRONT YARD BIKES: $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFTS CHARITY: $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPRODUCE PERKS MIDWEST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERACT FOR CHANGE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetISAIAH 55 INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN NETWORK OF ROSS COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSuperSeeds: $20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetHOPE CLINIC OF ROSS COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTALBERT HOUSE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAST MILE FOOD RESCUE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIOCESAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIKKUN FARM INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE WALLS PROJECT: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY AND YOUTH SERVICES: $14,856 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SOUTH LOUISIANA: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPATHWAYS TO HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW LEAF KITCHEN: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budget1N5: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRISTATE TRAUMA NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHOPE MINISTRIES OF BATON ROUGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE IBELIEVE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetBELPRE AREA MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.6% 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.

United Way of Greater…The Greater Cincinnat…Interact for HealthMillstone FundTr Uw Jacob Schmidlap…Capital Area United W…Andrew Jergens Founda…Elsa M Heisel Sule Ch…Community Foundations…Healthpath Foundation…John a Schroth Family…Baton Rouge Area Foun…
United Way of Greater CincinnatiOH38.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Interact for Health · Millstone Fund · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Capital Area United Way · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Community Foundations Inc · Healthpath Foundation of Ohio · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Baton Rouge Area 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 Joe Burrow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joe Burrow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Joe Burrow Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Joe Burrow 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 78 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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