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The Lamacchia Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 38
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$133k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Lamacchia Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$168k7%
FY202428$156k14%
FY202334$195k3%
FY202226$164k15%
FY202135$193k20%
FY202027$200k0%
FY201938$212k8%
FY201833$175k15%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$408kYouth Development$359kEducation$279kAnimals$203kFood & Nutrition$127kCommunity Improvement$106kPhilanthropy$69kHuman Services$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
SD
OH
PA
CA
MO
KY
NM
DC
MS
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 62 grantees
All grantees of The Lamacchia Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc$226,00090%
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc$190,30093%
Queen City Club$105,87041%
Civic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati$90,00092%
The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc$81,00081%
World Foundation for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Inc$80,20083%
The May Center for Learning$75,00042%
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company$75,00080%
United Way of Greater Cincinnati$60,00020%
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park$56,00070%
Summit Country Day School US Catholic Conference$44,0008n/a
Cincinnati Country Day School$42,50070%
Last Mile Food Rescue$31,00050%
St Joseph Infant and Maternity Home$21,00070%
Girl Scouts of the United States of America$18,73320%
YWCA of Greater Cincinnati$17,00070%
The University of Cincinnati Foundation$14,00030%
Albuquerque Academy Educational Foundation$14,0003n/a
Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts$14,00080%
Cincinnati Public Radio Inc$11,50040%
Tender Mercies Inc$10,50080%
Madeleine H Gordon Dba Gift of Life Foundation$9,00055%
Cornell University$8,00080%
Dominican Mission Foundation$8,0007n/a
Impact 100 Inc$7,00070%
The Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary$7,00090%
Cincinnati Opera Association Inc$5,00050%
Vent Haven Museum$5,00011%
Cincinnati Nature Center$4,50040%
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati$4,50050%
Freestore Foodbank Inc$4,50080%
St Josephs Indian School$4,0008n/a
Mississippi Center for Justice$4,00040%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$4,00040%
CISE Foundation$3,50050%
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc$3,50050%
Inner City Youth Opportunities$3,50070%
Delray Beach Youth Tennis Foundation Cor$3,00041%
Chautauqua Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Crayons and Beyond Inc$2,50040%
St Louis Scottish Terrier Rescue$2,0001n/a
The Fistula Foundation$2,0001n/a
The Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation$2,00040%
Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House$2,00021%
Public Media Connect$1,50030%
The Inner-City Tennis Project$1,2002n/a
Xavier Jesuit Academy Foundation$1,0001n/a
The Catholic University of America$1,00010%
Cincinnati Parks Foundation$1,00020%
Gamble Montessori High School Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Blood Cancer United Research Foundation$1,0001n/a
Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen Inc$1,00010%
Santa Fe Prep Athletic Booster Club$1,00011%
St Aloysius Orphanage$1,00020%
The New York Times Communities Fund$1,00010%
Women's Fund of Central Ohio$50010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati Inc$50010%
Music Hall Revitalization Company Inc$50010%
The First Step Home Inc$50010%
Maternity Care Coalition$50010%
Kentucky Horse Park Foundation Inc$2001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($264k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lamacchia Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $226,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc: $190,300 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetQueen City Club: $105,870 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCivic Garden Center of Greater Cincinnati: $90,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetThe Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County Foundation Inc: $81,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetWorld Foundation for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Inc: $80,200 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetThe May Center for Learning: $75,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCincinnati Shakespeare Company: $75,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $56,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Country Day School: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLast Mile Food Rescue: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph Infant and Maternity Home: $21,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of the United States of America: $18,733 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Greater Cincinnati: $17,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Cincinnati Foundation: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Public Radio Inc: $11,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTender Mercies Inc: $10,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMadeleine H Gordon Dba Gift of Life Foundation: $9,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCornell University: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetImpact 100 Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Heart and Soul Animal Sanctuary: $7,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCincinnati Opera Association Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVent Haven Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCincinnati Nature Center: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEnsemble Theatre of Cincinnati: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFreestore Foodbank Inc: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMississippi Center for Justice: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCISE Foundation: $3,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNational Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInner City Youth Opportunities: $3,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDelray Beach Youth Tennis Foundation Cor: $3,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetChautauqua Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCrayons and Beyond Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Greater Cincinnati Television Educational Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Media Connect: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Catholic University of America: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Daily Bread Soup Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSanta Fe Prep Athletic Booster Club: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSt Aloysius Orphanage: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Times Communities Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Fund of Central Ohio: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 51.

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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.

The Thomas J Emery MemorialOH38.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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Find your warmest path to The Lamacchia Family 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.

About The Lamacchia Family Foundation

How much does The Lamacchia Family Foundation give?
The Lamacchia Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $167,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Lamacchia Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Youth Development (22%), Education (17%).
Who are The Lamacchia Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc ($226k), Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc ($190k), Queen City Club ($106k).
Does The Lamacchia Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lamacchia Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lamacchia Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Thomas J Emery Memorial, Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation.
Where is The Lamacchia Family Foundation based?
The Lamacchia Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 70 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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