· Private foundation
The Lamacchia Family 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTH WESTERN OHIO | $40,000 |
| ST JOSEPH INFANT & MATERNITY HOME | $15,000 |
| LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE | $15,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $11,000 |
| CINCINNATI ZOO FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI & HAMILTON COUNTY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WORLD FOUNDATION FOR GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS | $10,000 |
| THE CINCINNATI BALLET COMPANY INC | $10,000 |
| CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI | $10,000 |
| CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| THE SUMMIT COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE FISTULA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HEART & SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +42% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 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; $3k 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
- TCThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +64%
- QCQueen City Club4× · 2017–2020 · $106k · revenue +16%
- CGCIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- VHVENT HAVEN MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -61%
- SLST LOUIS SCOTTISH TERRIER RESCUEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +47%
- ODOUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +17%
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.
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.
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…
To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.
To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.
Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Fund of Central Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Research 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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 70 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 The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ZOO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Queen City Club ↗
- Who funds CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD FOUNDATION FOR GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE MAY CENTER FOR LEARNING ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Infant and Maternity Home ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YWCA of Greater Cincinnati ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Public Radio Inc ↗
- Who funds TENDER MERCIES INC ↗
- Who funds MADELEINE H GORDON DBA GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 INC ↗
- Who funds VENT HAVEN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CISE Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds DELRAY BEACH YOUTH TENNIS FOUNDATION COR ↗
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 Thomas J Emery Memorial · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Louise Taft Semple Foundation · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Andrew Jergens Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Millstone Fund · Ruth J & Robert a Conway Foundation Inc · Jack J Smith Jr Charitable Trust
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 Lamacchia Family 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.
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