· Private foundation
John a Schroth Family Char Tr
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $850k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS | $100,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI | $100,000 |
| WESLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $95,000 |
| GREATER CINCINNATI FILM COMMISSION | $90,000 |
| BON SECOURS MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $84,148 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER | $80,000 |
| FREESTORE FOODBANK | $74,980 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY | $74,880 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF | $60,000 |
| LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC | $60,000 |
| OHIO VALLEY GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $60,000 |
| OVER-THE-RHINE COMMUNITY HOUSING | $50,000 |
| BETHANY HOUSE SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| Christ College of Nursing and Health Sci | $50,000 |
| EMERGENCY SHELTERS OF NORTHERN | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +35% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
140 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 96 since wound down; 14 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k 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
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER3× · 2018–2022 · $500k · revenue +47%
- CHChildren's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +152%
- SESt Elizabeth Medical Center Inc3× · 2018–2022 · $300k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- CACommunity Action Agency Cincinnati-Hamone grant, 2022 · $150k
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Incone grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue -44%
- COCincinnati Opera Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +45%
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 resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.
The home ownership center is a non-profit that has been serving the cincinnati metro area since 1973, and is a member of the neighbor works network.
United Way improves lives by uniting the caring power of our community.
We support individuals with autism and their families through programming in the areas of academics, adaptive behavior, communication, and social participation.
The World Affairs Council, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, is the bridge that connects the world to one of America's most vibrant regions. Through Global education, International exchange, and cultural awareness initiatives, the council strengthens…
To ensure people with mental illness, addiction, and related challenges lead healthy and productive lives.
Circle Health fights for equity by healing, teaching, and inspiring individuals and families to reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Citylink Center and the most unlike its peers is Falcon Productions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
211 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. 211 of the 272 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Northern Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI CENTER CITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds The Greater Cincinnati Film Commission ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds Wesley Community Services Organization ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds ART OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Tristate ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds LA SOUPE INC ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds FAITH COMMUNITY PHARMACY INC ↗
- Who funds The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHILDRENS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio ↗
- Who funds Joy Outdoor Education Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Union Bethel ↗
- Who funds LEARNING GROVE 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: Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Millstone Fund · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Pfau Charitable Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust · Josephine S Russell Charitable
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 John a Schroth Family Char Tr 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.