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.

The Lamacchia Family Foundation

The Lamacchia Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lamacchia Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$168k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $27k
$10k–50k10 grants · $141k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$133k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
WORLD FOUNDATION FOR GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS	$10,000
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI	$10,000
CINCINNATI ZOO FOUNDATION INC	$10,000
THE CINCINNATI BALLET COMPANY INC	$10,000
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF CINCINNATI & HAMILTON COUNTY FOUNDATION	$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
TENDER MERCIES INC	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 49 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+17%

Still filing today

82%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther

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

TC
The Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +64%
QC
Queen City Club
4× · 2017–2020 · $106k · revenue +16%
CG
CIVIC GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CINCINNATI
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +22%

Funded once

VH
VENT HAVEN MUSEUM
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -61%
SL
ST LOUIS SCOTTISH TERRIER RESCUEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +71%
PU
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2019 · $1k

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.

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra

Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra (CCO) creates intimate, transformative experiences that connect the musically curious.

Arts & Culture

Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture

The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

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.

Philanthropy

The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati

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…

Arts & Culture

Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber Foundation

To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.

Community Improvement

Cincinnati Observatory Center

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.

Arts & Culture

United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation

The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.

Philanthropy

Cintrifuse

To empower Cincinnati entrepreneurs to launch bold, scalable startups; and we work to improve the odds of those startups growing into transformational companies.

Community Improvement

Cincinnati Museum Association

Through the power of art, we contribute to a more vibrant cincinnati by inspiring its people and connecting our communities.

Arts & Culture

Cincinnati Preservation Association

To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.

Arts & Culture

The Contemporary Arts Center

The CAC is a lab for understanding ourselves, others, and the world around us through the experience and creation of all contemporary art forms.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Fund of Central Ohio; 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.

04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/54

Grantees still filing

44/54

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$598,916Arts & Culture$406,500Education$225,000Animals$199,300Environment$94,500Philanthropy$91,000Human Services$43,500

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lamacchia Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lamacchia Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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